Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal," growled Meany last week. "This man's ideas are crazy." Meany's anger has been building up. It is not just that he objects to McGovern's positions on such issues as pot, abortion and the Viet Nam War. He has also developed a distrust of the candidate that aides feel can never be dispelled. The antagonism dates back to 1962, when McGovern ran for the Senate from South Dakota. Hard-pressed for cash in a tough campaign, he asked the AFL-CIO for a $30,000 loan. The request came to Meany, who ordered: "Give...
...took their money out of weak currencies and bought the classic hard investment. On Wall Street, worries about the international money outlook, among other things, sent the Dow Jones average down 30 points in six trading days, though at week's end it recovered somewhat. In France, where distrust of currency is endemic, there was a flurry of investment in real estate and consumer goods. British tourists lost up to 10% of their buying power in foreign countries, nearly twice the official decline after the pound was floated. Because of the general uncertainty, Americans also had to accept discounts...
Most of those who spoke expressed a deep distrust of the arrangements that had been worked out to replace the STS program. "All we know is that you're taking money away from teaching fellows and that we may or may not be getting it back," one student said...
...behalf of products (shaving cream that could seemingly soften sandpaper or bread that "builds strong bodies twelve ways") was sometimes attacked, the Bates approach was widely imitated by competitors. Active in the Advertising Council, he defended the ad business against critics who "really don't understand advertising" and distrust "the entire free enterprise system...
Walter Cronkite, LL.D., television newscaster, Americans believe you. In dark moments of confusion and distrust and doubt, this virtue of wisdom and veracity, so scrupulously weighed, so carefully employed, is magnified a millionfold as your trusted voice carries the length of the land...