Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American officials fret that bitterness over the contracts may handicap the small progress made by Washington in improving ties with the regime. The men close to Khomeini could not care less. One suspicion is that the Ayatullah is willing to single out U.S. firms for harsh treatment, thus hoping to trigger a total rupture in American-Iranian relations...
...Bond was hectored by the committee, his performance, bordering at times on the evasive, added to the growing suspicion in the aviation community that the FAA, for all its vigilance in the past, had not been properly supervising the maintenance procedures used on the DC-10. Before appearing on the Hill, Bond ordered a precautionary inspection of the engine pylon mountings on three other wide-bodied jets operated in the U.S.: the Boeing 747, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and the European-built A300 Airbus...
...expect it, though. Because the man who came to be the symbol of drink bourbon/rape women/roll fairies American masculinity was born Marion Morrison, and there was always a suspicion that, deep down, John Wayne wanted to be the Mayor of San Francisco...
Also being critically examined last week were the procedures of the FAA, which writes the rules for inspecting jetliners and then supervises the work. There was a growing suspicion that the FAA may have relaxed too much, lulled by the fine safety record of jetliners. Shortly after the broken bolt was discovered, the FAA stipulated that pylon inspections had to be repeated every ten days or 100 flying hours, whichever came first. Formerly, it had been done only once a month or every 400 hours...
Radcliffe justly takes pride in the advancements it has helped women achieve in the Harvard community. When Radcliffe began, many people looked upon the idea of highly educated women with suspicion and disdain. Now undergraduate women at Harvard can participate fully in University life, unhindered by most outside barriers; but those gains for women have paralleled a loss in Radcliffe's raison d'etre...