Word: mistrustfully
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...what is to be done? I believe that the current system is--for all its flaws--the best available. Its justification rests on the most American of values: a mistrust of officials and institutions...
...Mistrust authority -- promote decentralization...
...many federal programs, he failed to exempt the states from picking up the slack. Result: big federal-budget cuts and big increases in state taxes. This time both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue were on board, but even as Gingrich looked on and Clinton talked about moving beyond the ``benign mistrust'' that he said had characterized federal-state relations, some of the Governors still felt benignly mistrustful...
...from seeing his popular support rise because of the Clinton rescue, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo is now facing widespread mistrust over his bargain with the U.S.,TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopezreports. "Everyone is asking what he gave away in exchange for it," Lopez says. "He's claimed that he has not compromised sovereignty over the issue, but there's still a level of suspicion in the general population that Uncle Sam wouldn't have done it if there wasn't more in it for him." Worse for Zedillo, whose image of weakness began with the Dec. 20 decision...
...anxiety is understandable, if grossly exaggerated. Blacks have ample reason to mistrust a party that owes so much of its success to playing up white resentments. Moreover, black political clout in Congress has plummeted, some key civil rights groups are in disarray, and some fear Bill Clinton may lurch to the right in a desperate re-election strategy. As Ronald Walters, a Howard University political scientist puts it, "We're on the defensive across the board...