Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, Harvard knew it would not be able to do what it pleased with the land. The outcry over past expansion made the University an immediate object of suspicion, and neighbors in Harvard Square had proved their tenacity by delaying the 1B development for years in a series of suits. And so, Harvard announced as soon as it purchased the property that the neighbors would be involved in planning for the site. Regular meetings followed, as community representatives--including Cambridge mayor Francis H. Duehay '55--were shown Graduate School of Design models for the property. A preliminary design, announced...
...which affects more than scientific research--seemed paramount, non-scientists were not particularly excited about the discussion. "My colleagues in the natural sciences, I think they were interested in it. Others in the humanities thought, 'Well, this is for the scientists,'" Solbrig says. Atkinson also recalls an air of suspicion among Faculty members because the memo never once refers to Ptashne--who characteristically refuses to comment on the whole affair--by name: "They wanted to say, 'Why don't you just put your cards no the table and tell us,'" he says...
...government's policy shift. "As long as there was deterrence, there was time to respond," he says. It now takes 30 minutes for a missile set off by the U.S. or the USSR to hit the other, but if the two countries have pre-emptive policies. "Any suspicion of an attack leaves little time to think through the nature of an attack...
Often it is not the act itself but the denial, the coverup, that wrecks a reputation. A suspicion will always linger that if Nixon and his men had not tried to cover up, his presidency would have survived; if only he had got up and confessed some thing. If only he had made what the Catholic Church calls a sincere act of contrition. It was not so much John Profumo's recreation with Christine Keeler that finished him as Britain's State Secretary for War. It was the way he lied about...
Micheal Lavery, a New York-based Maryknoll layman who is a friend of Bourgeois, said yesterday Duarte's statement was "an attempt to unjustly blame the victim, and to lessen any possible suspicion of the El Salvadoran paramilitary's involvement in the priest's disappearance...