Word: mistrustfulness
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...them. The two protagonists are members of the Peruvian Civil Guard assigned to this village, where work is inching ahead on construction of a government-financed highway. Although the guardsmen are supposedly there as keepers of the peace, they know the mountain people regard them at best with mistrust. "To tell the truth, you have to be pretty dumb to join the Civil Guard," Corporal Lituma tells his colleague. "The pay is lousy, nobody can stand you, and you're the first one they blow up with dynamite...
VOTE MARRED BY MISTRUST...
Bradley said citizens have reason to mistrust government when exceptions are made for companies with deep pockets and big campaign contributions...
...democracy movement materialized, in part, because of the anger some Chinese felt over the rampant corruption at all levels of the Party. Through interviews with workers, students, writers and teachers, the film powerfully conveys its 'subjects' increasingly vehement mistrust of the Party...
...Gingrich himself who set the bar so high for everyone. Failing to clear it can only breed more of the cynicism that put Washington, and more particularly Congress, in such foul repute in the first place. As things stand now, mistrust is growing both among those who have yearned for Gingrich's revolution and among those it terrifies. "Everybody who thinks change will be bad for them is scared," says Gingrich loyalist Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform. "Everybody who thinks change will be good for them doesn't believe it is going to happen...