Word: uncertainity
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...Sears, officially, is no longer America's largest retailer. The new king: Wal-Mart, a onetime backwoods bargain barn that, according to late figures, has pulled past Sears in North American sales. K mart, advancing steadily but less spectacularly, edged up just behind Sears, leaving the former leader an uncertain...
...while two undergraduate houses are entering transitional periods, a third will simply cease to exist. The phasing out of Dudley House as an undergraduate house and the immediate affiliation of transfer students with residential houses will also have an uncertain effect on the house system...
...objective standard, the gulf war has gone well and the outcome seems about as assured as anything can be in an uncertain world. Why, then, do so many Americans (and, seemingly, citizens of other coalition countries) have a vague feeling of unease, if not outright disillusionment, that the fighting seems nowhere near a conclusion? After great expectations of a relatively easy victory, the U.S. public has settled into a more realistic, in some cases too pessimistic, view of what is to come. The initial uncontested air raids and gee-whiz video glimpses of bombing turned out to be less decisive...
...they may well have difficulty themselves determining how much destruction the bombs have wreaked. Damage assessment is a tricky art even in the case of structures such as bridges. It is of course obvious if one has been hit, but figuring how long it might be unusable requires some uncertain judgments: How extensive are the repairs required? How quickly are they likely to be done? The judgments get more difficult when the focus shifts, as it is doing now, to such an elusive target as enemy troops...
...that Bush went through all of the known tortures on the way to his decision. But they must have been entirely internal. There is as yet no enemy or friend who claims to have been witness when Bush was either uncertain or unclear. Some wimp...