Word: distrusts
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That alternative is apathy. According to a recent IOP survey, college students are increasingly disillusioned with politics. This disillusionment is a bedfellow of distrust: The survey found that 64 percent of students don’t trust the government to “do the right thing.” Another 74 percent of students believe politicians are “motivated by selfish reasons...
...obvious reasons, the construction of the eyesores known as Mather House and Peabody Terrace in the 1970s angered nearby residents. More recently, the secret acquisition of acres upon acres of Allston and the ensuing uproar when the purchases became public knowledge earned Harvard the distrust of locals. Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine once told The Boston Globe that he considered the poor handling of the University’s Allston properties to be the greatest regret of his presidency...
...French are like our mother and father, but now they are taking sides between one child and the other," rebel spokesman Corporal Serge Kofi told TIME last week. "We had confidence in the French, but giving logistical aid [to government forces] is the same as arming the enemy." With distrust on both sides growing and thousands of Ivorians taking to the streets, the prospects for peace look slim...
...racial or ethnic groups. A year ago, President Bush and others rightly and immediately emphasized that Arab-Americans must not be targeted in the aftermath of the attacks. Yet there were still isolated incidents of violence—and more pervasive but less visible, a widespread sense of distrust of anyone who looked like the stereotypical “terrorist,” as meaningless as that concept is. America must rebuild, as a nation that holds pluralism to be one of its dearest values...
...World, were assignments for magazines and newspapers. They sent him to India to reminisce, to the Caribbean to cover political discontent or crime stories, to America to write about the Republican Convention of 1984, to Africa, South America, and elsewhere. What Naipaul brought to every assignment was his distrust of cant and his own strong opinions...