Word: distrust
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Bagwell cited the "mutual distrust" between the Crimson Key and the Freshman Task Force as an example of what an "umbrella" group could avoid...
...inside Cabinda, suspicions grew that Zaïre was merely preparing a justification for mounting its own invasion. At week's end Zaïre announced it was massing troops on its border with Cabinda, and a full-scale invasion of the enclave seemed imminent. In Cabinda itself, distrust of its rapacious neighbors and disgust with Angola's divisions were building pressure to go it alone and declare independence...
...brothers' defeat came at a difficult time for both. David Rockefeller's soft-selling bank has been outdistanced in assets since 1968 by New York's aggressively expansionist First National City Bank. Nelson Rockefeller has been increasingly attacked by Republican conservatives, who distrust him as an Eastern liberal, even though he has swung sharply to the right in recent years on welfare, drug use and other issues. His stand on New York further alienated the conservatives, stepping up the pressure on Ford to dump him in 1976. Moreover, New York's plight tarnishes his creative...
...most members of the Congress. But personal relations are not the issue. We are going through a period right now where, in the aftermath of Viet Nam and Watergate, the Congress is attempting to shift the balance between Executive and congressional power. There is [also] a profound feeling of distrust in the Congress of Executive discretion, which causes them to insist on a kind of documentary evidence which no congressional committee ever asked for before. At the same time, the structure of the committees has disintegrated to such an extent that the documentary evidence becomes public, creating new foreign policy...
...writers of the Sourcebook fairly glory in their womanhood, in their appreciation of feminism as a force "to enrich and diversify human life." Concomitant with this appreciation is a healthy distrust of those who would deny women their proper place in any scheme for societal and cultural revolution. And it is in this context that Marxist feminists and would-be "liberated" men come in for such a rough time. The problem with Marxists, says the Sourcebook, is that they fail to locate the problem of sexism where it belongs--in the oppression of women, as a class...