Word: distrust
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Americans distrust the cavalierism of modern-day health care and fear invasive medical intervention to the bitter end, or a lingering, undignified death while hooked up to life-prolonging technologies. A Gallup Poll conducted last April found that 75 percent of Americans believe that doctors should be allowed to end the lives of terminally ill patients by painless means if the patient requests it. Two appeals cases on this issue made it to the U.S. Supreme Court this summer; the Court ruled that there was not a constitutional right to receive physician aid-in-dying, thus effectively turning the issue...
...from a man's bitter, murky soul. It doesn't have much of the Mamet dialogue tang; that is on dazzling display in his forthcoming thriller, The Spanish Prisoner. Still, The Edge, directed by Lee Tamahori, offers enough of what a melodrama demands: two strong characters in mutual creative distrust...
...department to change its honors-degree criteria in the middle of a student's career provokes justified distrust and anger. If the Economics Department would have changed the criteria only for incoming sophomores and even juniors, who have four semesters left to change their class make-up, the decision would not be the subject of such ire. The decision to include seniors, however, is indefensible, unless the Economics Department is simply admitting that their honors are simply arbitrary since they have no time to react to changing requirements...
...Party leaders were shocked, nonetheless, since De Klerk remained the only NP leader with any significant support in the black population. Nelson Mandela was barely gracious in his praise of the man he had come to increasingly distrust in recent years ? particularly after De Klerk withdrew his party from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission probing the crimes of the apartheid era. Mandela's salute to his predecessor was barbed: "Whatever mistakes he may have made, and it is possible that he has made very fundamental mistakes as many of us have done, I hope South Africa will not forget...
...present and accounted for: the elite military unit; the brutal training program; the sadistic topkick; the misfit recruit, seemingly unfit for hazardous duty--especially since the rest of the troops distrust, even despise...