Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well as skimp on contributions to pension funds. On the other hand, industry officials seemed to feel that the rejection simply reflected the union's weakening grasp its members. Said one: "Facts had nothing to do with it. Rationality went out the window. What developed was emotion, suspicion and misinformation. It just gathered." Conceded Kentucky Miner Tommy Gaston, a member of the union's negotiating team: "I think the biggest problem was that the contract was not properly explained to the members fit had been, I think the pact would have passed...
There has long been a suspicion that budget growth could be reduced if somehow all programs were pared concurrently. But there was no way to reverse the historic logrolling process by which differing lobbyists joined to support each other's programs. To most legislators, voting down an appropriation that benefited a special interest was perceived as a large loss; the benefits to individual taxpayers,typically a small gain. Not surprisingly, past endeavors to cut special interest appropriations usually lost by large margins The so-called reconciliation process, however, allows the budget committees, with the agreement of a majority...
...Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary last year. Even then the issue was heating up, he recalls. "Everywhere I went, the activists I was most likely to see were those involved in the abortion battle. Since then I have developed a deeper respect for both sides-and a suspicion of anyone who argues that the problem has an easy solution...
...thrust of the tumult, as of the book, was that Hollis, in the twilight of his undercover career, had come under suspicion as the result of accusations against him within M15 that he had been a Soviet agent. In 1970, Hollis withstood 48 hours of unstinting interrogation as a result of these charges in an M15 safe house in London, according to Pincher. But doubts remained. A year after Hollis' death, Lord Trend, a former Secretary of the Cabinet and a highly respected civil servant, was recalled from retirement to reinvestigate the charges. Lord Trend, Pincher reported, concluded there...
...distracting presence of cameras, Fallaci stress-tests the people she interviews. Her method makes most interviews on American television seem tepid. Only William F. Buckley Jr., with the practiced assurance of a Catholic debater, similarly confronts his subjects as an equal in discourse (and sometimes barely conceals his suspicion that he is the intellectual superior). Bill Moyers is apt to be overrespectful, perhaps because he often interviews people he admires. Mike Wallace so single-mindedly bears in on someone's vulnerability that he rarely shows the person in the round...