Word: distruster
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...incident points to the biggest reason for recent bank troubles. There are other causes: growing public distrust of paper money, runaway world inflation, and the tricky task of absorbing and relending vast amounts of money flowing from newly rich oil-producing nations. But the main source of instability has been the temptations offered by floating international currency rates...
...officials insist that the lifting of the ban will not affect U.S. international monetary policy, since the value of the dollar is no longer closely tied to gold. Because gold pays no interest, it makes investment sense only to people who expect the price to rise sharply or who distrust other standards of value. But some banks and companies are making plans to service would-be American Midases. Tellers at Sterling National Bank in New York City, for example, will sell two sizes of gold bars over the counter and for the minispeculator, half-ounce wafers costing about...
Although the prestige of the Government as a whole has declined, I do not think that this is by any means exclusively or even primarily due to Watergate. We had Viet Nam as a prior problem, and we had the general-and very wise-distrust by the American people of a lot of things that were happening in Government...
Equally appealing to voters was Trudeau's ability to skillfully exploit a public mood ranging between apathy and antipathy, distrust of establishments, and politics in general, which has been plaguing Western governments all year. Though he has been the country's Prime Minister since 1968, Trudeau was convincingly able to appear as the candidate who hated holding a summer election as much as the voters did. Wherever he went, Trudeau's opening lines pointed out what a waste of everyone's time the campaign was. The message left the impression of a leader who wanted only...
...many Argentines still feel uncomfortable with Isabelita as La Presidenta. They distrust a woman in such a high position and question her background. Born in Argentina's impoverished La Rioja province, the daughter of a bank executive, she left home in her 20s to join a troupe of traveling folk dancers. In 1956, after finishing a performance in a Panama City cabaret, she was introduced to the exiled Per?...