Word: distruster
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...planning to crack down on supplements touched a nerve among the 75 million Americans who take vitamins, minerals and other dietary aids every day -- including large numbers of new-age leftists and right-wing libertarians who may disagree about almost everything else but who share a basic distrust of the government-medical complex. Over the past few months, thousands of letters, postcards, faxes and e-mail messages have poured into congressional offices. Thousands of people have marched in rallies in Los Angeles, Washington and New York, some carrying preprinted signs that say ACT NOW OR KISS YOUR SUPPLEMENTS GOODBYE...
Jeanne further associates several of my behavioral quirks as being peculiar to Seattlites. These include the obvious ones: whining about bad coffee, profound distrust of the sun and general contempt for everything east of the Rockies. But chief among my eccentricities is one that, as far as I know, has no direct cultural link to growing up in a place where the skies are cloudy all day--the way I vote...
...roommate isn't the only person who thinks it's unnatural that I keep a careful watch on political events 3,000 miles away. The nature of absentee voting and the laws governing it indicate a similar distrust on the part of the state and federal governments. And although many states have made registering to vote substantially easier by instituting "motor-voter" laws that allow voter registration at driver licensing centers, no similar relaxation has occurred with regard to absentee voting...
...Kennedy, international trendsetter, and Lady Bird Johnson, poetic beautifier of highways. But most likely it was because Pat Nixon stood by her man in the best Tammy Wynette fashion. And from his ambitious first days in politics to the catastrophic final days, her man could not shake the visceral distrust of the public and the media...
...official versions of the Martin Luther King and Malcolm X murders. To sociologist Amitai Etzioni, the fascination with these questions reflects a need to explain life's inexplicable dark side: Why did all these heroes die? That tendency is encouraged by America's individualism, which encourages an instinctive distrust of authority and officialdom...