Word: trustfulness
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Claire spends the entire episode avoiding Gretchen, whining about how she wants to trust someone and stop hiding the truth, while battling overprotective Daddy Noah Bennett along...
...that it owned a lot of suddenly worthless Lehman debt. London-based hedge funds that relied on Lehman for day-to-day financing found themselves unable to do business. Similar dislocations played out around the world, and financial institutions became paralyzed by fear and confusion. They simply didn't trust one another anymore and didn't want to lend to one another. The system couldn't handle the stress of a major failure...
...President is left with a difficult task, like a salesman without a shiny car on the lot to show off. He is not exactly telling people to trust him - the theories behind the proposed cost savings are well documented. But he is promising something that cannot be demonstrated just yet, so instead of using the number he originally did, he has now settled on phrases like "It's going to start driving down our costs over the long term...
Holder, who called the state secrets move an important step toward rebuilding the public's trust in the governments use of this privilege, laid out the new guidelines in a four-page memo specifying that state secrecy would only be invoked when genuine or significant harm to national defense or foreign relations is at stake. Danielle Brian, executive director of the non-partisan watchdog Project on Government Oversight, called the state secrets privilege an executive branch abuse that really needed to be curtailed, and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a liberal Democrat, said he was pleased with the Administration...
...things stand, Karzai will likely be confirmed as Afghanistan's President by November, muddied though he may by widespread election fraud. Washington must then decide: Is it worth backing a man who forfeited the trust of many Afghans and of the international community whom the harried President has tried to scapegoat for his government's corrupt incompetence...