Word: distrust
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...dismiss the advantages of a parliamentary form of government for the U.S. as going "one step too far." Our system of checks and balances, designed by a frontier community at a time of deep distrust of both royal executive prerogatives and the tyranny of the masses, has become an anachronism. This generation has witnessed the debilitating spectacle of a President trying to operate with a Congress controlled by the opposition. Will it take a political Mount St. Helens to blast us into recognizing the need for a more effective way of governing ourselves...
Finally: "Any lack of candor on our part will only force our Black and Hispanic students to labor under a greater burden of ambiguity, insecurity and distrust...
...cynical about the leftists' rallying cries as they are sick of the violence. "We know that the right has done most of the killing," says a young mechanic in a San Salvador barrio, "but the left is also responsible. It has become natural for us to distrust all people with guns...
Despite his slow Western drawl, Baldrige, 58, son of a Nebraska Congressman, embodies the Eastern Establishment that many Reagan backers distrust. He is a graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale (class of 1943) and the brother of Author Letitia Baldrige, who was Jacqueline Kennedy's White House social secretary...
...Clicks!" have resulted in a cynicism towards men and marriage, about which she writes, "...falling in love is a risk. You might marry. No one should seek to navigate the rocky shoals of matrimony these days without first consulting prayerfully with a lawyer, an accountant, and an analyst." This distrust and dismal view of men is on of The Girl I left Behind's greatest flaws. In her tendency to blame them alone for society's ills, O'Reilly fulfills the caricature of the man-hating, strident feminist. Although her personal and statistical evidence of discrimination and sexism render...