Word: mistrust
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...questions of priority and direction, questions of definition and allocation, and some very important questions about the role of a university in business and society. But the deepest question is also the most simple: a worry that motives and outcomes are not clearly defined, in other words, a mistrust of what is new. This mistrust is not entirely unfounded, but it is extremely misleading...
Both the police and the community should be enjoying the dividend of more peaceful times in our cities. However, racial tension and community mistrust of the police abounds. The true tragedy of the New York City and Los Angeles events is that as crime rates fell, confidence in the police in the minority community fell with them. The police had an unprecedented opportunity to be at the front lines of healing the racial divide. Instead the police remain the flash point for racial tension...
...wear thin at any time raises the dangerous possibility that China has become more willing to use military force to achieve its political ends, and thereby represents a real escalation of the tensions across the Taiwan strait. Unfortunately, China's threats seem likely to spawn a vicious cycle of mistrust, making it only more likely that the Senate will vote to sell additional defense equipment to Taiwan, further angering the Chinese government...
...felt it would contribute to a nasty atmosphere on the council, already too full of mistrust for the good of the city," she said...
...behalf of the student body it previously claimed should be the sole judge of whether Burton's actions merited removal from office. From what oracle does The Crimson derive its authority to speak on behalf of the student body? The Crimson is confident in its assumption that students mistrust the Undergraduate Council's current administration; I am as confident that the student body mistrusts The Crimson's presumption in these matters...