Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that "all politics is local." "It's the self-preservation instinct at work," says political scientist Greg Thielemann of the University of Texas at Dallas. "Pork-barreling in our direction is O.K." Ironically, a general anti-Washington feeling can work to an incumbent's advantage. The more people distrust the yahoos in Congress, the more inclined they are to cling to "their guy" as their one defender against congressional tomfoolery...
...Taxes. The ingrained distrust of government's ability to spend money wisely was even more pronounced at the state level. In contrast to previous elections, voters refused to impose new taxes even when they were earmarked for specific popular causes like fighting drugs and crime or protecting the environment. "Last time we were ready to pay, and we got taxed for it," says Sunny Merik, an editor in Santa Clara, Calif., who in the past supported measures that underwrote highway improvements and other public works. "But then the people in Washington put some ((fuel)) taxes on top of that...
...right-of-center Republican Administration, Cheney may be the most conservative Cabinet member. As a Congressman, Cheney recalls with some pride, "I never voted against a weapons program." His only significant misstep since taking over at the Pentagon resulted from his ingrained distrust of the Soviet Union. He once speculated publicly that Gorbachev would not last long in Moscow. He jokes that he keeps a list of 10 actions that will prove that the Soviets have truly changed. Even though some of them -- like the unification of Germany -- have been fulfilled, the list always stands at 10. "Every time they...
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Cambridge law graduate who has run the former British colony since independence in 1965, makes no secret of his distrust of Western media and their influence. In a speech last week, Lee argued that TV news broadcasts, with their dramatic reports on protests in Korea and the Philippines, led to last year's Beijing student massacre. The broadcasts, he alleged, misled China's students into thinking they too could force speedy government change. As for his own government, Lee said, it "can and will insist on no foreign interference in the domestic politics...
...operate separately from the U.S.-led multinational contingent, though it is expected that the two defense forces will cooperate and perhaps even coordinate their efforts. The eleventh- hour response to Saddam's challenge spoke directly to Arabs' deep-seated fears about Western intervention in the region, reflecting their historic distrust of foreign influences. As Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak cautioned during the summit, "The choice before us is clear: an Arab act that will preserve higher Arab interests or a foreign intervention in which we will have no say or control...