Word: distrust
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...Ellsberg or Deep Throat, no cinematic glorifications of corporate warriors breaking ranks such as The Insider or Erin Brockovich. Those who do speak out for the greater public good can expect to be fired as well as ostracized for not being team players. But attitudes are changing as public distrust of politicians and corporations grows. "The lifetime employment system is crumbling amid a wave of restructuring," explains Kazue Akita, a Tokyo lawyer who is backing a whistle-blowers law. "Japanese workers are becoming less loyal to their companies...
...uncommon position for Malone, who has a deep distrust of government and counts Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower among his heroes. But Malone also has a stubborn and patient sense of the value of a deal. So when the German Cartel Office demanded that he spend an extra $1 billion to $2 billion to upgrade the country's aging cable lines and offer cable telephony immediately--instead of gradually, as he had planned--he decided to walk away, as he often has at the last minute. "A very wise man," Liberty Media CEO Robert (Dobb) Bennett said at the recent...
...property’s purchase has remained an open wound, which neighborhood activists point to as a renewed symbol of Harvard’s greed and a new reason to distrust their institutional neighbor...
...make the site into a park and hope to do so by having the city of Cambridge declare “eminent domain” and forcibly buy the property back from Harvard. Although such an extreme move is unlikely, that it was even proposed shows the deep distrust and anger that local residents feel toward the University. Harvard must not be deterred by this opposition; it should continue to push forward with a full-sized art museum and make sure the museum and the amenities it offers do more to help the neighborhood than to further antagonize...
...Gorin’s unjustified accusation against the Prophet serve only to further such misconceptions. He owes an apology to the Muslims in the community for his slur upon their faith. He also owes an apology to the Harvard community for propagating misleading information that only serves to credit distrust between Muslims and non-Muslims here and in the rest of the world...