Word: distrustful
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...recent pneumonia cases in his hospital to see if any of them could have been SARS. "Even though this disease started in our country, we are behind everyone else in the world in trying to treat it." Other doctors from China's interior share his sense of betrayal and distrust. Asked about Shanxi's official death toll of just seven people, one doctor stationed outside a grim isolation ward stared at a TIME reporter and laughed: "Seven? That's complete fiction. Try maybe...
...implications of administrators who act without consulting the Faculty committee—which was created solely for the purpose of consultation on the new structure—are not positive. In one foul swoop, Summers and Kirby have ensured that future Faculty committees will look at them with distrust, a professional relationship of suspicion that benefits no one. Summers and Kirby have shown through their actions that they obviously do not care about the thoughts of Faculty and students, and have just set a precedent for constant skepticism from the entire undergraduate community...
...succeed in meeting the local Sufis. Unlike Wahhabis, who feel that the world has been going downhill since the seventh century, Sufis love life, poetry, cheerfully embrace other religions and distrust authority. Not surprisingly, they have a rough time when people like the Taliban, or Taliban clones like Ansar, are in power...
Tenants have developed a discernable mood of distrust toward the board, which they believe has intentionally kept them in the dark on a number of issues...
...forth an almost impossibly noble mission. “These days,” the editors wrote, “much of what we know about each other, and much of what we learn—from television, newspapers, and journals—reinforces our separateness and confirms our distrust. We pray that this magazine will help to bind us, one to the other, by trying to understand the distances between us, by recognizing that which we hold in common, and that which we might share...