Word: suspicions
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Silencing democracy describes Burma's standard operating procedure since 1962, when General Ne Win seized power from an ineffectual civilian government. His iron hand at home and suspicion of foreigners turned Burma into a hermit state. At the same time, his bizarre form of socialism reduced the once prosperous former British colony to penury while more backward neighbors were performing miracles of economic growth...
Weld, in contrast, lacks a proven record of successful administrative ability and has never served in elected office. The slickness of his campaign, the rehearsed political-ese in which he speaks, and his past associations with arch-conservatives all lend suspicion to both the genuineness of his newly acquired moderate positions and his ability to effect the changes necessary in Massachusetts...
...would love to have enough people so that all these stories could be written perhaps by people who did not have a particular interest in that situation, because then hopefully all suspicion of an internal bias on The Record would be alleviated," Miles said. "But we can't. I call upon the people who wrote the flier to join The Record so that we can cover more stories and provide a better forum for the Law School community...
...myths to replace them. They transformed the budget-making process, usually about as gripping as watching weeds grow, into a demolition derby. They invited the middle class to divorce its interests from those of the rich and its sympathies from those of the poor. And they reinforced the suspicion that in a crisis, the first instinct of elected representatives is to plant a time bomb and run for cover...
...context and that they distorted their relations with Keating. The war of disclosures clearly had partisan aims. Republicans hoped to raise the heat on the three Democrats still under investigation and force full Senate action before the Nov. 6 elections. Democrats wanted to keep Republican McCain under suspicion and postpone any pre-election condemnation of their coziness with the indicted financier...