Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need a Central Committee that can carry the full responsibility and enjoys full trust." Krenz was quoted as telling reporters...
...There is more trust between our countries, but unfortunately we haven't fully eliminated the mistrust. That is not surprising because in four years' ! time you cannot pull down mistrust built up over 40 years. As a Soviet military man, I am concerned by some actions of the U.S. I am saying this not to offend anyone but so that the American public will know. First, the U.S. and NATO are still pursuing a position-of-strength policy toward the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. We have elaborated a new defensive doctrine and put it into practice...
Krenz seems determined to keep that, at least, true. He fired five Politburo members and begged those who "think about emigrating" to give him a chance. "Put trust in our policy of renewal," advised Krenz, promising a "far- reaching program" to change the constitution, the economy and the education system. Yet he defined perestroika merely as something to "make socialism more attractive." For him, Soviet-style reform seemed not so much a welcome formula for change as a last-ditch effort to prop up the East German system before the rift between the party and society grows too wide...
This story of Cabiria, a streetwalker in Rome, who dreams of happiness and success, shows the pitfalls of blind trust. Thinking she has fallen love with a young man, she sells her house and withdraws all of her savings in order to marry him. But he betrays her and robs her, and in the end she returns to the streets...
...poor have a built-in defense against runaway crack abuse: they run out of money. The rich have the same limit; it just takes longer to get there. Stories abound of well-heeled users smoking their way through trust funds, savings accounts and charge-card credit lines. Some take out second mortgages and go on to sell jewelry and household items like TVs, VCRs and answering machines...