Word: distrusts
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Incumbent "Buck" McKeon took a conservative's distrust of government with him to Congress, but federal aid to his district after the 1994 earthquake softened that position. With a seat on the National Security Committee, McKeon is also an active proponent of more funding for the B-2 bomber, produced, not coincidentally, by companies in his district...
...believe Bob Dole, President Clinton has singlehandedly besmirched the highest office in the land and is the primary cause of the public's distrust of government. Last week, in the wake of Dole's final debate with Clinton and with less than three weeks to go until Election Day, Dole made the centerpiece of his campaign not his 15% tax cut but Clinton's moral fitness. "We're just starting to get tough," he told an audience in Riverside, California, noting that for the next 19 days he would highlight what he called "the sleaze factor" in the White House...
...current political vacuum, however, is of Yeltsin's own making and reflects his philosophy of power. "Boris Yeltsin never really fully trusts anyone," said an official who has watched him closely for years. "He is very adroit at manipulating the friendships and animosities of those around him." Yeltsin's distrust of others and his gift for manipulation found its expression in the 1993 constitution. Drawn up at the height of Yeltsin's confrontation with the legislature, the constitution gave the President broad and vaguely defined prerogatives. The aim was to ensure that he, and only he, controlled all the levers...
Perot chose to ignore the advice, and in doing so he squandered what might have been one of the most powerful opportunities in modern political history. The majority of Americans have consistently said they would welcome a President who is neither a Republican nor a Democrat. Distrust of government, while down from peak levels, is still staggeringly high. Perot, the consummate gadfly, could have been a contender...
...councilman, an ambassador to the U.N., and Deputy Housing Secretary under Jack Kemp. The son of a meat packer and a practical nurse, Blackwell was a Democrat growing up but switched parties in the 1980s. His conversion was driven in part by what he said is a "basic Jeffersonian" distrust of bureaucracies. "Doomsday," he said, "is the day we get all the government...