Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oeuvre also has a pleasing misanthropy. The lead character typically believes himself hated for what he is--black or paraplegic or just decent--while the background people are weak, mean souls. The townsfolk in High Noon and The Wild One have the same suspicion about the star whether he is a heroic sheriff or a cool motorcyclist. There's a bootstrap isolationism at work here: the world is out to lynch you, so you'd better make it on your...
First, it will increase inequality. More people with similar incomes will pay different taxes due to the increase in special-interest tax breaks. This will elicit suspicion among neighbors when the ones with the best accountants or tax lawyers pay the smaller...
...shared this suspicion at yesterday's meeting with bank management, which resulted in sharp words between he and Nelson Goddard, the bank's senior vice president for administration...
...center of things--pervades the local mind-set. One explanation might be all the gold--gold, the traditional hedge against inflation, the currency of fear. As anyone who has seen The Treasure of the Sierra Madre knows, gold tends to fuel a peculiar cycle of euphoria, panic and suspicion. In Eureka, where a new mine is opening up, the hills around town are being graded and bulldozed in preparation for dozens of fancy new homes. Eureka's Cuchine fears the houses are a rip-off, a scheme by the mining conglomerate to sell real estate that it knows will...
...analogy is not perfect. Snow described two cultures that were mutually suspicious or even hostile. Today the suspicion and hostility mainly run only one way. Silicon Valley shares the contempt of Americans generally for Washington and sometimes imagines that Washington is hostile to it. But in fact the dominant attitude in Washington about the high-tech world is one of swooning admiration. Nevertheless, swoon and scorn alike are based on astonishing ignorance inside each Beltway about the life and concerns of the other...