Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's safest haven for investors. Unlike stocks and bonds, both of which were plagued by a series of insider-trading cases during the 1980s, the $2.2 trillion market for Treasury instruments was thought to be too big to rig. The Salomon scandal shook that conventional wisdom and aroused suspicion that other firms might be playing similar games. Consequently, an intimidating array of investigations by the Federal Reserve Bank, the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission -- where enforcement director William McLucas is personally heading the inquiry -- and the New York Stock Exchange were launched. Next month Representative Edward Markey...
Yakovlev tried several times to dissuade Gorbachev from this course. Rather than intimidating the democratic opposition, he warned, a showdown would confirm the widespread suspicion that Gorbachev had, in his desperation, thrown in his lot with the reactionaries. And even if disaster was avoided, a decision to pit the military muscle of the center against peaceful demonstrators would backfire against Gorbachev, strengthening Yeltsin's popular base...
...Nobel laureate David Baltimore's stubborn refusal to concede that data reported by a former M.I.T. colleague in an immunology paper Baltimore had co- signed was fraudulent, and the shoddy treatment of the whistle blower who spotted the fraud aroused public suspicion about scientific integrity. Worse, from the viewpoint of scientists, it brought about an investigation by Michigan Democrat John Dingell's House subcommittee and fears of more federal supervision of science. By the time Baltimore finally apologized for his role in the affair, the damage to science's image had been done...
...that do business with the military. Major college groups have urged that the policy be reviewed, after ROTC cadets were refused their commissions when they admitted to their superiors that they were gay. Faculty members have discovered that they can be denied military research grants if they come under suspicion of homosexuality during security-clearance investigations...
...least when the victim sits atop the commodity clemenceau said was "as necessary as blood." But on most other fronts the euphoria of the allied victory has given way to the region's traditional pessimism. Centuries-old attitudes have not changed, new alliances have not jelled, and the historic suspicion of Western influence has receded only slightly. Even a joint defense force to deter future invasions has proved impossible to fashion; such is the distrust among the gulf states and their Arab neighbors. A Middle East peace conference may finally be held, but its success is far from assured...