Word: mistrustfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Democratic Party from 1972 to 1976, he stitched together warring Democrats after George McGovern's defeat and handed Jimmy Carter a unified party. During the fall campaign, Strauss grumbled privately that Carter and his aides were not paying enough attention to him. There is still some residual mistrust, but relations steadily improved after he took the job as chief trade negotiator and began to flash political talents, which are in short supply in the Administration...
Americans spend more than $153 billion a year on food and other purchases in supermarkets and grocery stores, and have an abiding suspicion that they are getting gypped at the check-out counter. Their mistrust should be considerably allayed, and the waiting lines shortened, by the ever growing number of computers that are taking over the tally...
More important, businessmen from Wall Street boardrooms to Main Street hardware shops have developed a set conviction that the Administration is unwilling, or perhaps unable, to craft any consistent, coherent economic strategy. That mood of mistrust is dangerous, not just to Carter but to the nation. As the White House now clearly recognizes, consumer spending has done about all it can to prolong the U.S. economic expansion; continued growth in the next two or three years will depend largely on business spending for new factories, new machines and, ultimately, new jobs...
Eliza confronts the injuries of class in an avowedly egalitarian society when she moves to San Francisco and takes a job in a doctor's office. Her co-workers -a working-class white and a ghetto black-initially mistrust her Eastern accent and sense of style. But Harry Argent, a blunt, flamboyant movie producer, is intermittently attracted to Eliza for what she is: "A sort of zaftig Jane Fonda," who needs not only a vocation but also...
...socialistic or because it was Russian. It has in any case given a bad name to what I many find the ennobling idea of equalitarianism. Russia has a dark and painful history of authoritarianism - a hatred of authority, but a need for it. Russians seem to fear disorder and mistrust foreigners. In fact, the young are now participating in a revival of nationalism...