Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind is the fact that four years ago Ross Perot spent $63 million on his own presidential campaign. Dick Lamm, worthy citizen though he may be, has raised only about $100,000. Where would he get the rest of the money? I'd have a strong suspicion that he intends to get it from a bunch of us party loyalists...
...opponents, these equations "are based on an economy that doesn't exist anymore," in the words of Jared Hazleton, director of the Center for Business and Economic Analysis at Texas A&M. To begin with, many think that productivity is growing faster than the official figures show, a suspicion publicly voiced by Greenspan. One reason: the official measures are based largely on output of things--numbers of autos, board feet of lumber--and may be overlooking computer-driven gains, especially in service industries. "It's very hard to measure electronic bits floating around in the atmosphere," notes Hazleton...
...gorgeous, and as empty-headed as a golden retriever pup. Or so it seems, as she backs up her man with a series of contradictory stories. But she is also very tall, and the prints of her large hands, it develops, are all over the victim's home. Suspicion shifts, and the con man changes his already woozy account, apparently to protect his partner, though of course protecting her implies she needs protection...
BEIRUT: Some 50 Iraqi military officers were arrested recently under suspicion of a conspiracy against Saddam Hussein in the latest attempt to overthrow the Iraqi leader since the end of the Gulf War. Iraqi dissidents said all the suspects are Sunni Muslims -- a group commonly considered to be Hussein's main base of power -- and included several trusted officers from Tikrit, Hussein's hometown. Last week, in possibly another planned attack, a former head of army intelligence claimed that several Republican Guard officers were charged with planning to assassinate Saddam and his two sons. The general, Wafiq al-Samarra...
...land" did not leave. In Khobar, the investigation of the cordoned-off blast site is underway. An FBI team equipped to search through the rubble for clues is hunting for pieces of the fuel truck that carried the 5,000-pound bomb. Even before the phone call claiming responsibility, suspicion had begun to settle on Islamic fundamentalists opposed to the U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia. At least one of these shadowy extremist groups threatened the U.S. with retaliation after four of its members were beheaded by the Saudi government for their involvement in a car bomb attack that killed five...