Word: distrusters
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...Jewish settlements, and control over the strategic Jordan Valley--will be acceptable to many Palestinians. Palestinians also charge that Sharon prompted the latest uprising by his heavily-guarded September visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Whether or not the responsibility for the recent violence lies with Sharon, the distrust he has gained in the Arab world will make any rapprochement with Palestinians or neighboring Arab nations difficult...
...novel continues the unsparing exploration of themes that run through all of Yamanaka's fiction as well as her poetry: family dysfunction, poverty and ostracism. In her previous works, these problems result directly from the persistent distrust within Hawaii's multiethnic population. In novels such as Blu's Hanging (1997) and Heads by Harry (1999), Yamanaka--a third-generation Japanese American raised on the island of Molokai--wrote dialogue in the pidgin English she spoke as a child, for which her characters are stigmatized, as she was herself. But in Father of the Four Passages, the blame for the family...
...Civil rights Once the sole provenance of the NAACP et al., this umbrella term now includes gay and lesbian rights groups - all of whom share a fervent opposition to Ashcroft. The former senator is opposed to affirmative action and earned the deep distrust of black leaders by toppling the federal appointment of Missouri Supreme Court judge Ronnie White (who is black, and who will reportedly testify at Ashcroft's confirmation hearing). Gay rights groups aren't pleased with Ashcroft either: During Senate debate on the Defense of Marriage Act, Ashcroft, who supported the bill, argued that gay behavior...
Corporate Distrust...
...never to bring in issues from outside. He never made overt political statements through "Peanuts." He remained apart from specific social and political causes, never joining the battle of ideas. Having established an idiom and a mode that commented on modern ills such as commercialization, real estate development, generational distrust, Schulz extended the area of doubt in modern life only insofar as he made it funny to doubt. But, as the '60s intensified, as the Vietnam War failed and nothing quite worked out, as the triumphal quality of American life modulated, "Peanuts" became a refuge. Schulz became the patron saint...