Word: mistrust
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...predecessor did. HAPLESS BARROSO Even before former Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso became Commission President in November 2004, he was a controversial choice. His liberal politics, and his presence in George W. Bush's "New Europe" coalition in Iraq, always raised doubts in France. This mistrust was exacerbated earlier this year, when Chirac blamed Barroso for pushing a proposal to liberalize services across the E.U. - thus aiding the no camp in the constitutional referendum. Largely ignored by Germany and France, Barroso has now tried to distance himself from his onetime ally Blair, decrying his budget proposal for sending...
...survey group’s other co-chair, said after the forum that reaction to the survey had been “fairly positive.” Anderson said that while media outlets rarely cite statistics gathered by the group, this is because of methodological issues rather than mistrust of student studies. “I believe it has been taken as seriously as possible,” he said...
...developed a feeling of a besieged country, that the whole world is against us. This created a certain national psychology: Don't trust anyone; everybody is against you. It created a mistrust of peace.'' As a sabra -- a native-born Israeli -- Rabin does not have the refugee mind-set shared by the country's founding fathers. They feared any concession toward the Arabs was the first step toward annihilation. Rabin also had a special plea for the Palestinians. ''You who have never known a single day of freedom and joy in your lives: listen to us, if only this once...
...scourge. Ministers tend to highlight the moral lapses--from social injustice to sexual behavior--that help spread the disease. They could be allies in combatting the epidemic, particularly in Africa where doctors are few and preachers many, but instead they often seem to work at cross-purposes, divided by mistrust and skeptical of one another's motives...
...television in any decade) may have about them an aura of imbecility, leading to 5) the Paradox of Retrograde Progress. Television is a Faustian bargain (a dazzling technology that induces dullness and even moronism), and the Internet has the same ominous tendencies. It is not a bad idea to mistrust the omnivorous vulgarity of innovation, even its (paradoxical) death instinct. Novelty, in its pointless ingenuity, keeps slaying itself...