Word: trustfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More important, though, is the implication that the government doesn't trust its citizens to communicate privately, Imagine what the House Un-American Activities Committee might have done in a country where most communication was electronic and the government always had a key. Applying the principle to other means of communication makes the administration's argument seem ludicrous. Think how many criminals have communicated by word of mouth: why don't we force everyone to wear a hidden microphone? Apparently, law-abiding citizens would never object to having other people listen to what they say-unless they needed to hide...
...have the best students in the world, and we should trust them to take an active role in the planning of their education," he said. "But we should make sure that they have all the information they need to make good decisions...
When the lot was put up for sale, the minimum bid was set at $650,000. Between March 7 and 10, the city tried once more to stop the sale and make a deal with the broker, Valente and the neighborhood. The council spoke with two environmental organizations, the Trust for Public Land and the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Division of Conversation Services, as it formed a plan of action...
...city has already created a similar fund for preserving affordable housing. However, it must get permission from the state before it can officially set up the same sort of non-profit trust for open space...
...than a decade: a deal with the U.S. to join the World Trade Organization. What makes the failure particularly frustrating is that ?both sides were 95 percent in agreement over the outstanding issues,? says TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz. What was missing was the handshake -- that is, the trust. ?The economic differences were mostly bridged," says FlorCruz, ?but not the political problems.? China agreed to lower most of the trade barriers the U.S. has long sought to pierce and agreed to live up to those obligations pursuant to WTO rules. But the United States insisted on a further guarantee...