Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear power in America was still in disarray, and it has turned out to be anything but cheap. The industry is plagued by searing cost overruns, unfinished plants, waste-disposal problems and environmental suits, shoddy workmanship, tricky technology, constantly changing safety regulations, disillusioned shareholders, weak political support and public mistrust...
...Those may seem to be hypocritical words for a politician who later joined the Communists in an alliance and who, after his election as President in 1981, became the first head of a major NATO member to offer Cabinet posts to Communists. But they accurately reflect the deep-rooted mistrust that continues to trouble the Socialist-Communist marriage of convenience...
White, in turn, has launched attacks on the Globe and the Times and may try to invalidate Weld's findings by showing that they were politically motivated. At a press conference last month, White said the Times's stories lead Bostonians to "mistrust their government...
...this atmosphere of rising mistrust, there have been several disputes between U.S. Marines, on duty near Beirut as part of the multinational peace-keeping force, and the occupying Israeli soldiers. Last month small units of Israeli troops occasionally asked to pass through Marine checkpoints, in violation of the agreement that brought in the multinational force last year. The incidents have been relatively unimportant, but they emphasize the risks inherent in a failure to bring the Israeli occupation of Lebanon to a swift conclusion...
...pipe-smoking man with a passion for Shakespeare, Adelman is a relatively pragmatic Republican who shares President Reagan's abiding mistrust of the Soviet Union. Adelman is convinced, says a former associate, that the U.S. "must negotiate from strength." One Western diplomat calls his speeches at the U.N. "some of the most ferocious language heard around here since the cold...