Word: distrusts
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...Spaniards lashed out at their own government. On the eve of the election, for example, furious protestors marched through the streets of Madrid, chanting “Our Dead, Your War.” But voters were most angered by Azanar’s poor handling of the crisis. Distrust of the government had already begun to grow in recent months, as official claims that Iraq possessed WMD’s proved unfounded. This distrust only deepened in the immediate aftermath of the bombings, after Azanar assigned blame to the Basque terrorist group ETA, an act many Spaniards believed...
...main characters of Green’s film spent ten years hiding from the world. And in a time when even the Weather Underground’s deathless bombings strike any number of deeply-felt chords, Green says he found that many of his subjects retained the same distrust of publicity...
...peculiar relationship with the press, draws much the same conclusion. Rejecting common notions of the venerable fourth estate operating on people’s behalf to check government power, the White House views the media as a self-serving special interest. While there are certainly valid reasons to distrust the press—especially its contemporary profit-driven variations—the Bush White House seems to believe that an ideal press should serve as a mouthpiece for its pre-packaged sound bites, and that anything less is a profiteering scheme...
...plenty of roadkill in the rearview mirror. The Conservatives' new leader, Michael Howard, had been widely praised for restoring some discipline and purpose to a party that hasn't managed to mount an effective opposition since Labour came to power in 1997. Trying to capitalize on polls showing rising distrust of Blair, Howard spent weeks suggesting the Prime Minister lied about his role in "outing" Kelly's name to journalists - only to find that Hutton's judgment wholly undercut him. He seemed so stunned that he couldn't revise his line of attack last week, and ended up looking churlish...
Both Rabbit and Harbour look at events from the grassroots up: at how a cynical distrust of politicians and big business can be harnessed into people power instead of hatred. And both - written and directed by women - suggest that the real battles were not fought in the male domains of football fields or the waterfront but in the home. Certainly Harbour is more interested in how an industrial dispute can divide a family than in its effect on a country. Having fled his wife Vi (Melissa Jaffer) six years before, Sandy returns to Millers Point to find a changed order...