Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Auburn St. controversy typifies the mistrust and animosity between Harvard and its property company, Harvard Real Estate, Inc., on one side, and liberal councilors and tenant and community groups on the other...
...rest of the world does not share the Americans' native sympathy for cowboys. Beyond the territorial waters, "cowboy" is often a term of derision, of contempt. In Europe, the word frequently conjures up everything that people fear and mistrust in Americans. It suggests unpredictable, violent behavior, a heedless and cavalier lawlessness and a kind of vigorous stupidity: a hard killer glint in the American eye, the loose cannon rolling around in the American mind. Viet Nam was a rip-roaring American cowboy adventure that turned into a nightmare. The cowboy idea does not always ^ travel well abroad. It works best...
...innocent. Enter the second complication. Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close), a hotshot, tough-talking lawyer, believes that Jack is telling the truth, so convincing herself of his innocence that she falls in love with him. From this point the movie winds on, full of emotional tension: love entangled with mistrust and evidence confused with truth. The conclusion, of course, must be kept a secret. The only guarantee is that it will be a complete surprise...
Educational organizations condemned the Pentagon report, which they said belied an underlying mistrust of fundamental freedoms. In addition, the presidents of 12 scientific associations with a total of two million members sent a statement to the Department of Defense pledging not to present papers at conferences if the audience is limited to U.S. citizens, as some have been...
...East Germany has cast a pall on the anniversary celebration. The U.S. military now says that it would be inappropriate to attend, but Robert Swan, an organizer of the reunion, defends it as a partial remedy to "40 years of fear, 40 years of ignorance, 40 years of mistrust of each other...