Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, callow as their ideas sometimes are, the Beatles exemplify a refreshing distrust of authority, disdain for conventions and impatience with hypocrisy. "I think they're on to something," says their friend Richard Lester, 35, who directed their two films. "They are more inclined to blow away the cobwebs than my contemporaries...
...transportation and other costs. But with industrial plants running at a slack 85% of capacity (v. last year's 91% peak), they also suspect business of using any pretext to raise prices in order to reap a windfall of earnings as the economy picks up. Reflecting this root distrust, Ackley recently took special pains to chide the rubber industry for following a strike-forced labor settlement that was "clearly out of line" with price hikes "even greater than the added costs of the wage agreement...
...song-Every Little Breeze Seems to Whisper Louise-and her parochial slogan: "Boston for Bostonians." In a city of strong ethnic divisions and relatively low levels of income (45% of the registered voters earn under $6,000) and education (38% never finished high school), she appeals to those who distrust academics, business leaders and suburbanites...
...remarkable that the I.W.W. accomplished anything, so great were its built-in weaknesses. It was torn by factional fights and filled with company spies and agents provocateurs. Basically, they could never decide whether they were a revolutionary movement or a trade union. Their contemptuous distrust of the employer made it impossible for them to handle the bread-andbutter details of rates, hours or factory disputes. Faced with any industrial problem, the Wobblies solved it by going out on strike or sabotaging machinery...
...some time, but the network is hardly adequate to service a nation of more than 566,000 villages. Even when a villager trudges 20 miles to a family-planning center to pick up a free condom, he may find the depot out of stock. Besides, many Indian peasants intuitively distrust any gifts from the government. The only really effective channel to the villagers is maintained by a few giant commercial enterprises that sell shopkeepers such everyday goods as soap, tea, cigarettes and matches. At the behest of the Ford Foundation, the Health Ministry began in 1966 to use this commercial...