Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is also the bitter memory of American companies that exploited the country's cheap labor and abundant resources during the 31-year reign of Dictator Porfirio Diaz, whose excesses touched off the revolution that led to the creation of the present republic. Those episodes have fostered a reflexive suspicion about yanqui motives that lingers to this day. Says a State Department official: "Mexicans are so sensitized by the past that it colors any overture from the U.S. They tend to see in normal conflicts much more sinster aspects than are really there...
...corners for handholds and rope anchors. Four propane cooking-gas cylinders were fastened to the center. Their wives stitched up a balloon, 72 ft. in diameter, out of 60 different pieces of canvas and bedsheets, which the families had bought in small amounts in different shops to allay suspicion...
...Police say the incidents are all "isolated"; Education Commissioner Anrig agrees. Still, many of the episodes of harassment which have occurred over the past months have required planning and resources, to provide the weapons or the printers, and this alone causes some black leaders to view police statements with suspicion...
...above lyrics, from a song on an album by a group named "Gary Numan and Tubeway Army," were the most extraordinary find of our ongoing investigation into "new wave" music. This album--the cover pictures a creature not apparently human-- confirms a suspicion our experts have long held: that the entire so-called "new wave" movement is really a fifth column action for a takeover effort by an alien race from some as-yet-undetermined nearby solar system...
...turning to conservation and solar energy. The Project opts for the latter. Imported oil presents risks other than supply cutoffs and higher prices. There are external costs as well, such as a slowing of economic growth, higher unemployment and inflation and balance of payments deficits, along with "increased tension suspicion among the nations of the West...