Word: mistrustful
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...officials seem to interpret as radical malcontentism when they stubbornly refuse to give in to Black demands. This leads in turn to more bitterness and rage. And around in a vicious circle it goes, with hostility and misunderstanding feeding on each other and resulting in the very separatism and mistrust the University tries to avoid...
Part of the Administration's difficulty in effectively countering the complex problems in Central America is that its policies have often been obscured by an excess of anti-Soviet rhetoric. This has provoked mistrust and opposition in the U.S., among West European allies and in Latin America. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig set the tone shortly after Reagan's Inauguration by vowing to "draw the line" against Soviet expansionism at El Salvador. Since then, Administration officials have periodically flogged the Red Menace, sometimes with unhappy results. The most notable diplomatic debacle occurred when the Administration promised to produce...
Folly and Government, Tuchman's forthcoming book which she described at the Atherton Lecture, appears to carry this evolution to its logical extreme. Where Tuchman once proclaimed that "I am a disciple of the once because I mistrust history in gallon jugs," her new book will span 4000 years of legend and fact. Where Tuchman once wrote that "insistence on purpose turns the historian into a prophet" her new book is defined by purpose, its conclusions implicitly prophetic. And the 12 case studies, Tuchman uses to explore her question were explicitly chosen because of their conformance to strict criteria. Stated...
...Americans, allies and Soviet leaders alike were fed up with the dithering of Carter and were ready for some old-fashioned conservatism, tempered by common sense and self-confidence. Instead, Reagan made a bad situation worse with his rhetoric suggesting implacable hostility to the Soviet Union and his deep mistrust of the very idea of arms control...
...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...