Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...union representatives resume negotiations seeking a new contract before a deadline of midnight EST Friday. The union, the Allied Pilots Association, has established a strike "war room" in Miami, while the airline has alerted its 90,000 employees that a layoff may be coming. "There's a lot of distrust on both sides," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne. "The central truth at this point is that the two sides can't even agree on the major issue. The management says this strike is about money; the pilots say it's about the emergence of regional jets." This contract...
...nation born of a distrust of kings won't easily forgive a President who behaves too much like one. And so every four years, the people give a test: first we hand someone the most powerful job in the world. Then we demand that he not be too proud of himself for having it, too desperate to keep it or too sure that he alone knows what to do with it. And then we sit back and watch, until it's time to decide whether to re-elect...
...contempt after refusing to answer Starr's questions before a grand jury. Having been granted immunity for anything other than perjury, Susan can no longer invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege. In various interviews since her conviction, including an appearance on ABC's 20/20, Susan has cited her fear and distrust of Starr and his prosecutors as her reason for silence. That distrust seems genuine, but it is hardly the full explanation...
...traveling extensively throughout the country, in reporting on five other presidential-election campaigns, I had never found such pervasive distrust...national politics was more irrelevant to people's lives than ever before." That was journalist Haynes Johnson writing about the 1976 election...
This is part of the background to Johns' targets, and a little further back is another form of "targeting"--the virulent hatred and distrust of homosexuals as deviants and possible spies that the right encouraged. Johns was a reserved, closeted gay, and a work like Target with Four Faces, 1955, is all about threat and concealment. Its impassive, identical plaster casts of faces are contained in a box with a hinged door, a "closet" above the ominous target. Your gaze, in looking at them, is assimilated to the eye of the inquisitor, hunting out what is concealed...