Many Koreans are asking how their institutions reacted so poorly to the disaster, and recent polling shows a steep drop in trust for government and corporations.
In a panel on the falling trust in financial, government, and journalistic institutions, Richard Edelman of the Edelman Trust Barometer, reported that his group had seen a steep drop in trust for American business.
This year, the U.S. leads the charge with a 37-point drop in trust across institutions, which includes organizations from the government to businesses to mass media.
In a sign of the drop in trust between the coalition partners, The Independent on Sunday has learnt that Mr Clegg has been holding weekly meetings with his fellow Lib Dem cabinet ministers since May to ensure that they are not outmanoeuvred by the Tories.
According to the study, "No market saw steeper declines than the United States, with a 37-point aggregate drop in trust across all institutions". The sector I work in, health care, is not immune.
Here's the main reason for the U.S. downgrade to the category of flawed democracy — there was a drop in the levels of trust in political parties, elected representatives and governmental institutions.
Edelman calls the broad drop in trust of American institutions the "stark exception" to more positive readings in other parts of the world.
Another hot topic here is the just-released Edelman Trust Barometer, which showed the largest-ever drop in trust across the institutions of government, business, media and NGOs around the world.
It's not worth the severe drop in trust levels you will experience.
You can also drop in on trusted contacts, like grandma or grandpa.
A13 Bushes Pay More on Less Although their income fell to $811,100, President and Mrs. Bush paid more in 2001 federal income taxes, $250,202, than for 2000, largely because of a loss involving a trust and a drop in their charitable giving, according to tax returns made public.
