Word: distruster
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...willingness to try to heal thorns in the flesh. Arizona Senator John McCain proposed that the Senate Judiciary Committee hold hearings into the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, a shared emblem of pain among antigovernment zealots. That disaster, said McCain, "fanned the flames of distrust." Indeed, the general perception that the federal action was justified may come in for serious revisionism. In an article in the May issue of the religious journal First Things, Dean Kelley, a respected legal scholar, reviews the records of the siege and questions the need for and the ferocity...
...have managed to agree on issues that would have seemed unthinkable only yesterday. Our nuclear weapons are no longer targeted at each other. We are reducing profoundly our nuclear arsenals. The logic of confrontation and the psychology of hostility and distrust have been banished from our relations. This partnership has enabled us to bring about real changes in the solution of the most complex international issues such as the Middle East, Angola and Cambodia...
...injunction sought by the National Labor Relations Board, forcing the owners to return to the work rules of the expired collective-bargaining agreement. So baseball was right back where it started last August, with the same old system in place and no sign of a new agreement. The distrust between union head Don Fehr and acting commissioner Bud Selig is still so vehement that they can't even agree on a mutual no-strike, no-lockout pledge for this season...
Even as the faithful flock to seminars and healing services, the Protestant and Catholic hierarchies treat the subject of miracles with great care. For the minister trying to guide parishioners through the eddies of faith and reason, such stories pose a particular challenge. In many churches, the clergy distrust the miraculous for the very reasons that Jesus did. The preacher who affirms that miracles can indeed happen must also be prepared to explain why they do not. Why do some cancers vanish while others consume? Why do people starve if five loaves could feed 5,000? "Miracles can be like...
...controversy, which took Rudenstine bysurprise, brought to a head tensions which hadbeen brewing within FAS for some time. The facultyannounced distrust towards an administration thatthey said they felt was run more like acorporation than an academic institution...