Word: distrust
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...members of the BCC, stating that “93% of former members said that members are told to trust the group and its leaders over their own thoughts and opinions,” and “88% said members are told that to question, criticize, disobey or distrust leaders is to question, criticize, disobey or distrust...
...monthly meetings routinely address fears of skyrocketing housing prices, anticipated traffic woes that will likely accompany development, and general distrust of Harvard after their secret dealings...
Would that it were that simple. Like others of his ilk, notably Austrian Jörg Haider, Fortuyn has surely profited from a sense of public frustration over the cozy consensus among established Dutch political parties. He has played incessantly on distrust of Muslims, and his promises to beef up police evidently appeals to urban dwellers who feel unsafe on their own streets. "Everyone in my local pub voted for him, because there is a small gang of Moroccan kids that terrorize the neighborhood," says Cathy Brouwer, a human-resources worker in Rotterdam. "They somehow think Fortuyn is the answer...
...Switzerland never joined before? When the organization first came to Geneva in 1946, postwar fear of communism was rife and the cautious Swiss decided to stay outside. In a 1986 referendum, 76% of voters rejected membership; distrust of the Soviets, as well as political squabbles between superpowers, was blamed for the defeat. Today, Nordmann says, "the international environment is different and the U.N is different. We can no longer hide behind the shield of neutrality...
...years ago,” he says. “I remember very well in those days that it was a very tense community. People were not on talking terms.” After the radical polarization of the 1960s, the Harvard way of life was eroded by distrust. “Things that were premised on intimacy, talking together, the House system, the common freshman year—these were all very shaky,” Gomes recalls. “So it seemed to me that the ideal of Harvard College as a way of collegiate living among...