Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ehrlichman and Haldeman that he did not know about either the espionage plans or the later concealment. "The White House was like a prophylactic sac," he says. "Everything was artificially inseminated." The former official believes that Nixon insisted on this kind of protection because he had developed an unrealistic distrust of others; thus the aides around Nixon could have kept the reality of Watergate from...
Reflecting the deep distrust that Arabs once felt for banks, the Sheik of Abu Dhabi ten years ago stashed his oil money in the dungeon of his palace, where he could keep an eye on it-even though rats kept nibbling away at his profits. Now the rich gush of oil cash into Abu Dhabi and such other Arab states as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya has forced a change of attitude...
...becomes obsolete. It is evident that a government has the right to require security clearances of some of its employees; it may even have the right, as some argue, to run checks on a few of its former employees for the rest of their lives, a sort of "distrust without prejudice" applying to individuals who had access to information of grave national concern. But rare is the man who is burdened with secrets of such value and duration that the nation can reasonably expect him to carry them to the grave...
...good many Americans appear to distrust their own currency, and fear that foreigners will not accept it. The U.S. offices of Perera Co. Inc., money dealers, are thronged with tourists seeking to buy foreign money, or traveler's checks denominated in ten foreign currencies, before they go overseas. They worry that if they take dollars, the price in foreign money will sink farther before they reach their destinations. Nicholas Deak, head of Deak & Co. Inc., which owns the Perera offices, wonders how Perera's staff will get through the summer. "They are already exhausted, and the peak tourist...
...some tension between women currently employed by Harvard and the Administration. And despite the Administration's oft-voiced commitment to non-discriminatory hiring, and its assurances of the existence of comprehensive plans to implement the requisite recruitment, impatience, especially among women in the faculty ranks, has gradually turned to distrust...