Word: distrust
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...didn't help that long-simmering policy feuds between O'Neill and Lindsey--at bottom reflecting the mutual distrust between a corporate honcho and an intellectual--were getting increasingly personal. Lindsey was fingered for leaking damaging criticism of O'Neill and Hubbard. At strategy sessions with Bush, O'Neill frequently interrupted Lindsey to disagree with him. "There was no creative tension," says a senior aide, "just tension." After the bloodletting last week, staff members for each man blamed the other for their boss's misfortune. For a White House that prides itself on unity and order, it was an exceptional...
...kegs, no Outkast. Diminishing space for student groups. Much of the student body mildly dislikes the University’s administration, and that doesn’t bother me too much. But many of these students distrust it. Activists seem particularly jaded, and cite the opaque corporation structure of governance, few ethnic studies opportunities, the small population of female professors and poor sexual assault disciplinary policy as reasons for wariness. Some distrust between a large, old institution and students might be inevitable, but the fact that students doubt the University administration’s commitment to strengthening sexual assault prevention...
Later, over e-mail, Johnson qualified her distrust and expressed her hope for the committee. “The Coalition began early in 1998” Johnson explained, “to reform education, resources and disciplinary procedures dealing with sexual assault at Harvard. Few of the changes we have sought over the past five years have been realized and our efforts at improvement have been frequently resisted by the University. However, we hope that CASAH is the beginning of a change in that mindset and are looking forward to the concrete, tangible improvements that will come from the committee?...
...University instantly became an object of distrust and resentment in the community and, despite making amends with Boston City Hall, its image is still tainted...
...member Turkey accepts an agreement that would allow the E.U. access to NATO assets. But Turkey doesn't want to say yes or no until it gets word in December on its prospects for launching negotiations to one day join the E.U. Such squabbles demonstrate the slight air of distrust among some Europeans about the U.S. push for NATO transformation. Capabilities are all well and good - if they materialize. But there are still nagging questions about the specific missions a transformed NATO will be called on to perform. More war-fighting prowess might assure NATO a role in the international...