Word: mistrusting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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PARKER: It's not so simple. It's true that tensions between labor and management have been a problem for decades. There was--and still is at some airlines--a great deal of mistrust. At America West, for example, we have spent an extraordinary amount of time over the past several years just talking to our employees...
Dickensian tales like Sidis' may help explain why most educators mistrust the whole idea of grade skipping. We catch a whiff of élitism around parents who want their kid to leapfrog others. What's called radical acceleration--finishing high school at 15 or younger--is viewed with particular skepticism, since one suspects today's striving parents may be no less aggressive in pursuit of their child's glory than Boris Sidis was. Judith Roseberry, president of the California Association for the Gifted, says several couples a year approach her seeking to have their fetus identified as gifted. "They...
...visitors spend about $5 million annually at the spa, and project backers say the real reason for the protest may be that local people profit from renting out their properties - so the hotel would cut into their incomes. Mayor Kubera says this may be partly true, but suspects a mistrust of foreigners to be the overriding reason. "We spent 50 years in a plastic bottle and now have a problem with somebody looking or acting differently...
...activist who publishes the magazine Crisis and who is close to the White House. "There's huge energy at the grass roots against Kerry." Bush, too, has courted conservative Catholics (he paid his third visit to the Pope two weeks ago), who in recent years have largely buried their mistrust of evangelical protestants and fostered political alliances on such issues as abortion and gay marriage...
...attacks staged by militants on police and military posts in the south of Thailand have no connection whatsoever with "jihad" or any underlying religious conflict. The incidents that occurred are part of an effort by a few groups of individuals who wish to sow the seeds of religious mistrust and intolerance where none had existed. Their resort to the repeated use of violence is intended to undermine the fabric of social and religious harmony that has always existed in Thailand. The Thai government very much regrets the loss of lives, but the scale and swiftness of the attacks on April...