Word: mistrust
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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...
...mishap in the first place, while others believe they have been misled about its seriousness. To regain their trust, the utility has assembled a 32-person public information staff and says it reports even the most minute trace of suspect radiation. Says Communications Manager Doug Bedell: "The legacy of mistrust and distrust is very real and all we can do is slog along and be straightforward." But he has a lot to overcome. One of Pat Smith's anti-nuclear-power buttons reads THEY LIE; the I is in the shape of a cooling tower with a menacing plume...
...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...