Word: suspicions
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These militia members begin with America's innate suspicion of the government and take it to the level of the paranoid. Their nuttiness makes it difficult to take these guys seriously, fertilizer bombs and assault rifles notwithstanding...
...which the court decided that states could not limit the terms of members of Congress because the framers of the Constitution established the exclusive qualifications. And O'Connor wrote the strong dissent when the court ruled that public high schools can require drug tests for student athletes without prior suspicion of drug use. Moreover, Kennedy and O'Connor often wrote separate opinions this term to distance themselves from the three other conservatives with whom they voted. In the University of Virginia ruling, for instance, O'Connor made clear her preference for dealing with church-state entanglements on a case...
...economic boom, particularly, the long-suppressed sense of superiority again finds easy justification. The Middle Kingdom expects the rest of the world to admire it, not the other way around. That is why I am so surprised to hear some experts talk of the U.S.'s avoiding Beijing's suspicion while it also thinks it can "improve China's values." On the other hand, China needs to grow up, probably as much as it wants to grow to be a respected power. A better and safer world cannot be built with an adolescent China asking to be rewarded for each...
...peaceful uses. "You use nuclear technology in medicine, in agriculture, in genetic engineering," says Velayati. But the large number of Iranians being trained as nuclear specialists, the country's huge energy reserves and the very long odds that biotech companies will be cropping up in Iran all inspire suspicion...
...sued, arguing that their son, who was not a known drug user, had been subjected to unreasonable search. Today, in a 6-3 decision with broad implications for all American students, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools can require athletes to undergo random drug testing, without establishing any suspicion that the students involved are abusing substances. The Court held that school athletes have a lesser expectation of privacy, so that testing them does not constitute an unreasonable search. Justice Antonin Scalia cautioned that the new ruling applied only to athletes, and should not be interpreted as condoning suspicionless searches...