Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Foster wrote an anguished lament: "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport." Nine days later, Foster was dead. Shock at the apparent suicide of one of President Clinton's top aides turned to mystery, then suspicion, as the White House became entangled in an ever widening net of questions. Among the confidential matters Foster was working on when he died was the Clintons' investment in Whitewater, an Arkansas land development launched in 1978 with the Clintons' partners, Jim and Susan McDougal...
...credibility problem. He has a reputation in Israel for being weak on security issues. In part, this is because he was never a combat soldier, unlike many other prominent Israeli political figures. His penchant for making dreamy, naive predictions about "the new Middle East" has also earned him suspicion. Says Sam Lewis: "He has a tendency to paint a larger picture than the paintbrush can fill in." On top of all that, Peres strikes many Israelis as too slippery in general. In a country that prizes simple virtues, he dresses a little too well, speaks a little too glibly...
...There is a strong suspicion these pigeons are ending up in pies rather than in races. They are probably being sold to Greek restaurants...
Harvard seems to have no intention of letting parents down who are already under the suspicion that their children lead a special privileged life here. They think we have no concerns or worries. Harvard appears to be an ideal world where so many people care about you that it is just like being at home with your parents. Surely they will not be disappointed in these couple of days, for the fooling process has already begun. Big events and snazzy teas are planned. And professors who hardly come out of their offices to greet students (they have more important things...
...Mandarins as being selectively compassionate--about racism and sexism and international human rights, but not crime or falling wages--and then creating remedies that affect everybody but them. The idea that (in the words of President Reagan) "government is the problem" is a proxy way of voicing the suspicion that the Mandarins are going to use government to assuage their consciences in a way that inconveniences everybody else...