Word: suspicions
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University rules require instructors to alert the Ad Board at the slightest suspicion of academic dishonesty--a policy Metrick supports--but he says he suspects that many professors deal with students on a personal basis...
...assault on the bureau's competence could not come at a worse time. The Capitol is a stew of scandals and suspicion; the Attorney General is under fire for protecting the White House; the entire top rank of the Justice Department has been hollowed out by transfers and resignations; White House counsels come and go like munchkins. At the same time, the enemy is smarter and more slippery. New technology makes white-collar crime easier to commit and harder to prosecute. Organized crime is a much more complicated threat than in the days when the FBI battled Al Capone...
Oddly, Choice Plus was not created in reaction to any bitter consumer backlash. Minnesota law requires all managed-care plans to be nonprofit, so there was no suspicion that patients were being shortchanged for the benefit of Wall Street. And 87% of the state's citizens tell pollsters they are satisfied with their medical care. But workers did grumble about cumbersome approval procedures, the need to change physicians whenever companies changed medical plans, and limited choices...
...Blessington's memory of the men who sold them the dope. They had asked for "Frenchy," and Blessington, trying to appear in control, said they would have to wait until his partner arrived. "They drew themselves up around their hidden weaponry behind a silent, drug-glazed wall of suspicion that looked impermeable to reason. They were zombies, without mercy, and he, Blessington, was wasting their time." Into this "odor of menace" strolls Blessington's girlfriend, looking for trouble...
...Committee." The deal fuels speculation that Lukashenko is seeking to use it to springboard him to the head of a restyled Soviet Union. But don't look for integration to go smoothly. In a recent interview, Lukashenko, a hearty proponent of Soviet-style command economics who harbors a deep suspicion of the West, announced that union with Russia would require Moscow to rethink the free market reforms that have won fat checks from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...