Word: distrusts
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Perot seems to realize he will never be President; too many Americans distrust and dislike him after his paranoid and imperious performances, from his baseless charge during the 1992 campaign that the G.O.P. was trying to disrupt his daughter's wedding through the 1993 debate with Vice President Al Gore over trade. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 54% of those surveyed believe Perot's formation of the new party is "good for the country." A two-thirds majority, however, think Perot should not be that party's candidate for President...
Today, for all his talk of diplomacy, Bush is blithely unconcerned about the resentment brewing at home and abroad. Tomorrow, the distrust and discord he is sowing will be remembered by history as the Bush legacy...
...firms will turn into "communities," "horizontal structures" and other egalitarian forms. Nice buzzwords, but not reality, says Stanford Business School professor Harold J. Leavitt in Top Down: Why Hierarchies Are Here to Stay and How to Manage Them More Effectively. Sure, Leavitt writes, hierarchies breed "infantilizing dependency that generates distrust, conflict, toadying, territoriality, backstabbing, distorted communication and most of the other ailments that plague every large organization." But they persist because compared with the alternatives, they are quite efficient and offer goal-oriented workers an achievement ladder to climb. The book has lessons for middle managers who serve both...
Just look at the likely winners. The largest political group running in the election, the United Iraqi Alliance (U.I.A.), is a grab bag of parties that have little in common apart from a desire for power and a deep-seated distrust of U.S. motives. Backed by Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the supreme religious leader of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, the U.I.A. includes the country's strongest Shi'ite parties, among them the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (S.C.I.R.I.) and the Dawa Party, which have close links to Iran. It also includes such wild cards as former...
...state of Iraq as the people disseminating those facts and figures. That’s why real historians wait long enough for the fog to dissipate before beginning their studies; as people’s passions stop boiling, the truth is usually less obscured. Until then, I suggest we distrust everyone...