Word: distrusters
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...soon appointed to high city offices some 40 zealous followers, about half of whom are younger than he is. They share his distrust and disdain for bureaucrats, but some of them are inexperienced. Director of Finance Joseph Tegreene, for example, is a 24-year-old political science graduate of Kenyon College who worked as a stockbroker for eight months; No. 2 slot in the department of Public Safety is held by Tonia Grdina, a 21-year-old undergraduate at Cleveland State University. The Kucinich appointees quickly became known as the City Hall Raiders. To their credit, the Raiders rooted...
...Portrait of Sarah Pitkin," an oil by Marguerete Walsh, is alarmingly real. A woman in an Indian gauze shirt seems to harbor distrust and fright. The plain background makes the portrait more believable; Sarah Pitkin could be sitting in your own home. The figure's emotions are made larger than life through the proportions of the painting itself...
...warned. Moreover, "though the French economy has improved, it is still very fragile. The shock that would be caused by the implementation of the [leftist] promises would plunge it into a far worse crisis than we have thus far experienced." Finally, in an appeal to his compatriots' traditional distrust of the Germans, Giscard predicted that under leftist rule a weakened France would soon be economically and financially overwhelmed by West Germany. "Who among us could be resigned to that?" he asked solemnly...
...contract depends on countering the distrust that has flared like coal gas among the miners. The Labor Department and the Mediation and Conciliation Service are engaged in delicate diplomacy with various U.M.W. factions to get them to take the lead in working out a settlement. But they are dealing with an independent, rebellious union that may see its individualism as its greatest strength. At a time when most labor disputes are fairly quickly accommodated and resolved, the coal strike is a stark reminder of the amount of damage that one embattled union, toughened by tradition and fired by indignation...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to move toward a peace that would ignore or bypass Palestinian interests. In fact, the attack will make any peace at all more difficult. Certainly, it will reinforce Israel's resistance to any kind of Palestinian state on its borders, make the Israelis distrust all Arabs more than ever, and stiffen Begin's stance toward making further Israeli concessions in any peace talks. The attack seemed to be the opening salvo of a new policy by Palestinian leaders, launched in Tripoli last December at the Arab states' rejectionist summit, to carry to Israel...