Word: distruster
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...lead the way. California, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, North Dakota and Washington are responsible for 60 percent of ballot initiatives that have appeared over the last decade. The trend seems to be caused by a combination of the West's willingness to experiment and a high concentration of libertarians who distrust elected officials. In the past decade, Oregon voters have seen an average of 12 initiatives on each ballot they've cast...
...talk to strangers" has limited value if the stranger doesn't come off as a potential threat to a child. Young children often envision strangers as evil looking and might not identify a well-dressed, soft-spoken man looking for help finding his dog as someone to distrust. Security expert Gavin de Becker, author of Protecting the Gift (Little Brown), says parents must educate their kids to be assertive and, specifically, to yell and tell. "When someone tells your child 'Don't yell,' that's when they should yell 'This isn't my dad!' and scream for help, and when...
...Bush's distrust of financiers and faith in CEOs determined his economic team. The month before he took office, he told Time that he viewed economists as he did "accountants-you hire them." Bush "hired" Lawrence Lindsey, a former Federal Reserve governor, for the backstage role of national economic adviser. And he chose Glenn Hubbard, an economics professor, as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers. But for the out-front post of Treasury Secretary, Bush chose the CEO of aluminum giant Alcoa, Paul O'Neill, whose skepticism about investment bankers mirrored...
...Ellsberg or Deep Throat, no cinematic glorifications of corporate warriors breaking ranks such as The Insider or Erin Brockovich. Those who do speak out for the greater public good can expect to be fired as well as ostracized for not being team players. But attitudes are changing as public distrust of politicians and corporations grows. "The lifetime employment system is crumbling amid a wave of restructuring," explains Kazue Akita, a Tokyo lawyer who is backing a whistle-blowers law. "Japanese workers are becoming less loyal to their companies...
...uncommon position for Malone, who has a deep distrust of government and counts Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower among his heroes. But Malone also has a stubborn and patient sense of the value of a deal. So when the German Cartel Office demanded that he spend an extra $1 billion to $2 billion to upgrade the country's aging cable lines and offer cable telephony immediately--instead of gradually, as he had planned--he decided to walk away, as he often has at the last minute. "A very wise man," Liberty Media CEO Robert (Dobb) Bennett said at the recent...