Word: mistrustfulness
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...turns out, the feeling is mutual. According to one recent U.S. survey, a whopping 96 percent of consumers say they do not trust their HMO, 93 percent do not trust their health insurer and 88 percent do not trust their telecom provider. Which industry has the lowest mistrust rating? Only 60 percent say they mistrust their supermarket...
...along the 600-mile route. Insurgents Saturday blew a hole in Baghdad's key water pipeline, leaving residents without drinking water for days. While such attacks might seem counterintuitive for an insurgency seeking popular support, there may nonetheless be a political rationale behind each: Given the high level of mistrust toward the occupying authority in Baghdad, it's a safe bet that many in the capital would blame the Americans for the absence of drinking water, no matter who was really responsible. And cutting off Iraq's oil exports leaves a massive deficit in the budget of Paul Bremer...
...would require Senate ratification. Instead, the U.S. may offer some written guarantee that falls short of treaty status, and indications from Moscow are that Russia and China may be willing to offer extra security guarantees to persuade Pyongyang to sign. Recognizing the difficulty of bridging the ocean of mistrust between the U.S. and North Korea, China, Russia and South Korea are pressing for an immediate temporary freeze on the nuke program in exchange for a short-term security guarantee, while negotiations then continue over a "simultaneous and phased" program of dismantling, inspections and concessions - a "roadmap" to North Korean disarmament...
...Prime Minister Tony Blair is under fire from critics for overstating the case for war (see related story). The accusations came at an awkward moment for Bush, as he began a seven-day diplomatic trip to smooth over relations in Europe and seek peace in the Middle East. Moreover, mistrust about the Iraqi intelligence was growing just as the Administration began to make a similar case against Iran. In order to defend the credibility of his agency, CIA Director George Tenet took the unusual step of issuing a statement last Friday dismissing suggestions that the CIA politicized its intelligence...
...background of the preregistration drama this year. Official pronouncements stated that the end of shopping was not the objective, but most of the faculty conversations to which I was party focused less on predicting enrollments than on ending shopping. It was this ambivalence about goals that led to student mistrust of the proposal. Ultimately strong objections from several professors in the March Faculty meeting caused the proposal to be shelved, even though most faculty would probably have preferred that shopping be eliminated...