Word: mistrust
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...story. Therefore, the special report that appears in the Economy & Business section focuses on workers and bosses at one of Britain's major firms. Like the Bellamys and their servants in the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs, they cannot live apart, though their relationships are plagued by mistrust and class antagonisms. The factory chosen for the story belongs to Rubery Owen Holdings Ltd., Britain's largest privately owned manufacturing firm. For two weeks, Correspondent William McWhirter followed Managing Director John Owen and Doug Peach, the firm's senior union spokesman, around the company's main plant...
...have asked the unions what they want. I even asked whether the fact that this is a family business was a stumbling block. They said it wasn't. I've talked about giving them more of an interest in running the company. The response was disappointing. They mistrust ownership shares because of what happened to companies like Rolls-Royce when they went bust. Workers lost not only their jobs, but part of their savings as well...
...recognize that the joint flight was as much a diplomatic exercise as a technological feat, and they were divided on its value. One launch watcher at the GUM store, Valery Gromov, a Moscow mathematician, suggested that the joint U.S.-Soviet mission might help "move aside the feelings of mistrust" on both sides. But another middle-aged Muscovite disagreed. "Everyone knows the political side of it," he grumped. "They have no need to talk about...
...beyond the gut connotations of identimats to their real, innocent purpose. But there is still something to be said for the gut reaction. The technology involved in the new machines is forbidding in itself--electronic gadgetry scanning your fingers, read and green lights rendering judgement. If a simple, Thurberian mistrust of machinery were not sufficient reason to fear and detest and hand-print machine, there would still be the cool efficiency that would replace the myopic checkers. At Harvard, as elsewhere, we've come to treasure inefficiency as a substitute for less capricious guarantees of benevolence. If the tangled mess...
...cover story on the dance [May 19] has long been overdue. One of the reasons for the popularity of dance is our mistrust of words...