Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Complex Causes. Lawyers, on the other hand, tend to attribute the increase to the physicians' own incompetence. "The reason why there are medical malpractice suits is that there is medical malpractice," says Robert Cartwright, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (A.T.L.A.). Both sides distrust the insurance companies, which claim enormous losses on malpractice insurance but have thus far declined to disclose any firm figures to back up their demands for ever higher premiums (a typical charge for a high-risk specialist nowadays: $20,000 a year or more...
...many Israelis, one problem is an abiding distrust of Sadat, who, despite his peace initiatives and seeming sincerity, is after all the man who ordered the surprise 1973 attack against Israel. According to a recent poll, 62% of all Israelis doubt that Egypt is truly interested in peace. As Abba Eban said last week, the question remains: "Is Sadat really convinced that this nation is a historical reality...
...underscore his theme. Beautiful Navajo rugs are spread out for an airing under the big sky as a cowboy works them over with a weirdly out-of-place vacuum cleaner; a brand-new Lincoln auto is pumped full of slugs from an ancient buffalo rifle. But Perry appears to distrust his taste for surrealism and settles too often for the merely slick. Similarly, McGuane, a highly regarded young novelist, tells us too little about the characters in this original screenplay. Rancho Deluxe might have been a film of considerable originality, something on the order of last year's under...
...when Richard Nixon brooded on his mountaintop at Camp David and ordered the bombing of North Viet Nam. One man with a few words unleashed the greatest destructive strikes in all of history. The decision came from within him. His life rested to an alarming degree on distrust, hate and a belief in being "tough." He was ready to bomb again that spring. Only the threat of Watergate and his own political death stopped...
Such cheer has yet to percolate among many ordinary people, who have learned to distrust official forecasts and have been turned off by Washington's frequent abrupt changes in economic policy. Jay Schmiedeskamp of the University of Michigan's respected Survey Research Center reports that "the level of consumer confidence is still greatly depressed." The center's latest survey, conducted during February, showed that only 8% of the questioned consumers expected to enjoy good times within the next five years; 61% expected hard times. The unemployed (8 million active job seekers, plus 1.1 million people who have...