Word: distrusts
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...reflects the best of what we stand for and other times the worst. Thus, in the '60s, all-white juries acquitted Klansmen who had murdered civil rights workers in the South and today, inner city juries acquit Black defendants charged with murdering law enforcement officials--a trend of minority distrust of police officers that was evident in the Kahane and Rosenbaum cases...
...resulted in a verdict of "innocent" when a jury comprised predominantly of minority members found "reasonable doubt" in what had been considered solid police evidence of the defendant's guilt. A panel of six Blacks, four Hispanics and two whites confirmed what legal experts have been saying--that a distrust of police testimony is rising, particularly among Blacks, Hispanics and people who live in poor neighborhoods where suspicion of police misconduct runs high. The defense's selection of minority members to fill the jury produced a greater chance of acquitting an individual who seemed guilty by all accounts and testimony...
...cynical joke is that there is only one thing in common between the feminists and conservative women in the church: they both distrust the bishops," says Ronda Chervin, the consultant on the U.S. bishop's letter. "The conservatives think the bishops have been bending before the feminists, and the feminists think the bishops have caved in to Vatican pressure." After agreeing to prepare the document in 1983, the bishops made an elaborate effort to hear out alienated women. Some 75,000 women offered written and oral testimony, and the first draft in 1988 was filled with accounts of their distress...
...very different. French workers pay 44% of each paycheck to their government to ensure the wide range of family-related services that touch all generations. The relative homogeneity of society and the centralization of government make delivery of those services easier. Americans, who generally pay lower taxes, seem to distrust anything centrally orchestrated in Washington. As a result, the U.S. has no national child-care policy...
...argued that voters should be far more concerned with how a candidate proposes to heal the ailing economy than with "character" issues. Many indeed are, and the Gennifer Flowers episode has apparently settled into a larger perspective. But the draft issue still continues to fuel a widespread distrust of Clinton...