Word: mistrustful
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...contingencies if they have too few weapons: they wouldn't be able to deter Russia, China and potential regional actors simultaneously." If he's serious about even approaching zero, Obama will have to impose a strategic doctrine on the military that moves away from such Cold War paranoia and mistrust. As one former high-ranking U.S. State Department official who was part of the original START negotiations told TIME, "Worst-case war planners should not dictate to the President a force structure which exceeds all plausible needs." (See the world's top 10 worst nuclear disasters...
...atmosphere of tension and mistrust is real - and no longer limited to the Finance panel. In recent weeks, three sources tell TIME, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has added a tax-related item to the basic questionnaire it presents to nominees it is vetting, asking them whether they have reviewed their tax returns for the past five years and can verify that they are accurate. And officials say that other panels, such as Homeland Security and the Governmental Affairs Committee, are moving slowly in vetting the nominees that are before...
...face delicately concealed by a piece of lace. The accompanying biography explains Violette’s tragic life: raped by her father in her teens, she was sentenced to death for killing him several years later. Violette’s tale is not alone in its violence—mistrust and anger, rape, and bodily destruction inundate the stories displayed. Even the presentation of the text itself is challenging. Words, set in uniform lines, cram the frame. As the viewer reads the narratives, he must fight to distinguish the story from his own reflection in the gleaming glass. To create...
...been vilified and discredited. So, as selfishness collapses as a viable expression of young ambition, service has stepped in as a replacement. This is by no means a bad thing: the efforts of even a few service-minded young people will go a long way in repairing the acidic mistrust that has corroded the commonwealth...
...Zimbabwe for 28 years since its independence, hailed a "victory for Zimbabwe" and offered "my hand of friendship and cooperation, warm cooperation and solidarity" to Tsvangirai. "If yesterday we were adversaries," he said at Tsvangirai's swearing-in, "today we stand in unity." Mugabe too acknowledged the "deep-seated mistrust" between the two sides. "We are all aware that the road has been long, tedious and often frustrating." But he added that the pair had "shown that we have the capacity to resolve our differences. We must build on this unity by turning our swords into plowshares...