Word: trusted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people to support the radical idea of rescuing rich investment bankers, don't send a rich, former investment banker (Henry Paulson) to convince them. And don't send a discredited, lame-duck President, either. As in normal life, people are more likely to believe the advice of someone they trust. There aren't many well-known experts in this field who aren't rich, but even Warren Buffett would have brought less baggage to the process than Bush...
...Nobel committee cited Heaney’s “works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.” Many of the poems Heaney read at Sanders concerned the tension between opposed ideas: home and elsewhere, modernity and antiquity, trust and danger. Before leaving the stage, he offered the assembled crowd a bit of wisdom. “The secret to life, and to love, is getting started, keeping going, and then getting started again.” —Staff writer Jilliam J. Goodman can be reached at jgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
There was a lack of trust, a loss of confidence, a popular revolt...
...Asked to take a leap of faith regarding a dizzyingly complex problem, a critical mass of voters refused to trust their leaders, turning down the medicine that was offered. And so the politicians who are most exposed to popular whims have run for cover. With an election on the horizon, 95 House Democrats and 133 House Republicans opposed the bill. Some portion voted no for clearly ideological reasons. But many more were simply doing what politicians do - responding to the will of the people...
...those historians should not forget that roots of the failure predate the vote on Monday, and even the mistakes of Wall Street. Years ago, the trust between the people and their politicians was broken. Credibility was lost. The reserve of goodwill went bankrupt. And when they needed it most, our nation's leaders found that they had squandered their ability to exert influence over the people who chose them to lead...