Word: distrust
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...Army Corps of Engineers and the government of Louisiana are each preparing plans for flood defense and coastal restoration. But after the Corps's disastrous performance during Katrina, many locals distrust it. The state worries that the Corps, despite reassurances from the director of its civil-works division, will shortchange wetlands protection in favor of its traditional preference for large levees. "We're not going to let them go down that road," says Robert Twilley, chief scientific adviser to the state's planners. "If we don't restore our wetlands, the levees won't last and neither will our economy...
There's a lot of distrust in South American countries that their natural resources won't be accrued for the people living there. We saw that firsthand in Bolivia. We had been trying to convince the government to produce natural gas, liquefy it and ship it to North America, but there was an uprising, and the President got thrown out of office. At the end of the day, the commodity is so important to countries as a revenue source that it will eventually move to market. We're just going through a step change as to how countries get compensated...
...ironically this bountiful confidence in students’ ability to make informed decisions belies a fundamental distrust. Harvard administrators shrink from granting liberty in an area where the watchful guidance of pedagogues can perhaps be most safely withdrawn: determining in which House rising sophomores will spend the remainder of their College life...
...Spinetta recalls the dark days of 1997 when he took command of financially strapped Air France, charged with pulling the airline out of a tailspin of labor unrest and a half-decade of losses. A growing number of French customers, long accustomed to work stoppages, viewed the airline with distrust and scorn. "When people start looking at their own flag carrier as unreliable, you've really got a problem," says Spinetta...
...Israelis. They openly voice suspicions that Mohammed Dahlan, the head of Preventative Security, is working with the U.S. and Israel to topple the Hamas government. Meanwhile, Fatah charges Hamas with taking money and direction from Iran and Syria (where Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Mashal is based). The distrust is endemic. Neither Fatah nor Hamas trusts Israel. Israel trusts neither. On top of that, the Egyptians are reportedly peeved because the Saudis brokered the deal and took the glory for themselves. Discord exists within the Palestinian factions themselves. "The fighting on the ground raised the question of how much...