Word: trust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into a panic. Erskine Bowles, Clinton's chief of staff, tracked Gephardt down in Kentucky to complain, and urged the Missouri Democrat "to walk this thing back," as a top aide to the President put it. Gephardt did what Bowles asked, but only up to a point. "I do trust the President," he assured TIME the next day, adding that "we ought not jump to conclusions one way or the other." But no amount of rephrasing could hide the fact that Democrats are distancing themselves from Clinton as they nervously wait for Starr's report...
...Sadly, there are no winners when the nation endures a crisis like this one. We Americans all suffer when the office of the President undergoes a failure of trust...
...world that eventually proved to be an illusion. The communists, their ideology and the Soviet state turned out to be illegitimate as well. Little wonder that today's citizens are confused and distrustful, wondering what, if anything, they can believe in. For the most part, they do not trust their government, and the administration of President Boris Yeltsin is not helping. It talks reform but hasn't been able to deliver fully. It bills its economy as a free-market system when it actually is a hybrid between robber-baron capitalism and state control. And now it is snatching away...
...discredited political establishment. Russia's leaders have proclaimed too often that they have found the way to lead the country out of its penury--only to falter. In this case, the currency reserves would run out, and so would the Kremlin's kredit doveriya--its fund of public trust...
...Which was almost certainly the reasoning behind Clinton's "asking for forgiveness" aside during a civil rights speech in Massachusetts Friday. But has it had any effect? Dick Gephardt does seem to be stepping back from last week's discussion of the Clinton impeachment process -- "I do trust the President," Gephardt told TIME -- but that hasn't stopped many Democrats on the reelection trail from distancing themselves from the President. With the previously unthinkable loss of a dozen House seats now being openly discussed, forgiveness is not at the top of their agenda...