Word: distrust
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Whether or not the murders were committed by the same person, they are related in that they have plunged the local black community into an atmosphere of fear and distrust. These feelings are aimed especially at the police, who have responded to the violence against black women with much less enthusiasm than they have to similar crimes against life and property involving whites. The media has been no help either; until the most recent murders press coverage has often slighted or distorted the facts...
...history of Israel's relationship with its Arab neighbors is one of war, unending distrust and attempts by other nations both to exploit and to end those disputes. The major milestones...
...three gubernatorial appointees, one selection of the attorney general and a fifth member chosen by the secretary of state. Currently, one Independent, two Democrats, and two Republicans hold commission seats. Despite its non-partisan composition, however, many state officials still view the commission with a mixture of fear and distrust. "Some people here perceive us as a horror story imposed on the legislature," David Brickman, commission member, explained recently. "But we are not a band of J. Edgar Hoover Jr.'s and we will do our job professionally, so that if they have nothing to hide they have nothing...
...have been made. The case is scheduled for trial in the Abingdon Circuit Court at the end of this month, but the town is beginning to realize that whatever the decision, later appeals may cost them an unimaginable $100,000. That is one reason why they have swallowed their distrust of outsiders and outside help enough to encourage the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund to appeal the project before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
...failing to achieve real leadership of the nation, Carter has so far proved unable to break post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate mood of bitterness and distrust that, in part, brought him to office. He is treated with less respect by the public, the Congress and the press than would be expected of a man of his record and rather benign personality. All this has produced a sense of regret in the President himself. "The duty of our generation of Americans," he noted last week, "is to renew our nation's faith-not focused just against foreign threats, but against...