Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Never before in the history of the presidency have records that are so private been made so public. In giving you these records?blemishes and all?/ am placing my trust in the basic fairness of the American people...
...would upset a lot of Americans who thought he rarely cussed. That concern is really almost meaningless in the current context. What produces despair is that men given the responsibility for doing so much for this nation would spend so much time and energy contemplating the violation of that trust...
...experience with environmental work but with a long list of political connections, was contracted to do the sensitive environmental study. At that point there was a little grumbling heard to the effect that the study might well be fixed in favor of Kennedy interests. Then, suddenly, the community's trust in the firm's integrity went flat when the press began to report accusations that Maguire had bowed to political pressure and changed a report it had done in East Boston to suit the wishes of members of the Massachusetts Port Authority. Whether or not the charges of dishonesty were...
...that the Soviet dictator figured that sooner or later Mao would have learned on his own that Kao Kang had been informing on him and, if that had happened, Mao could have accused Stalin of fomenting opposition to the Chinese government. "Stalin wanted to win Mao's trust and friendship, so he took reports about conversations with Kao Kang and handed them to Mao . . . Stalin decided to sacrifice Kao Kang and thereby earn Mao's trust...
Tanya does not know how much money she earns. Her six-figure income goes into a trust fund. Her lawyer gives her $250 a week as allowance, and she banks it. It seems a country star hardly has to buy anything. "A lot of people give you things," says Tanya genially. "Western belts. A white monster of a truck I call Moby Dick. And a man from South Dakota gave me a new breed of cow with a talent for putting weight on fast. A doctor in Houston promised me a pinto quarter horse if I would just stay...