Word: uncertainity
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...long the shutdown would last and how deeply it would bite remained uncertain. Fortunately, it went into effect on the Columbus Day weekend, giving Congress and the President three more days to strike an agreement before most government employees were due to report to work. On Friday evening, while congressional leaders scrambled to rejigger the deficit-cutting plan to make it more acceptable, the House overwhelmingly passed a short-term continuing resolution that would have funded government operations for a week. The measure was approved by a voice vote in the Senate hours later...
...recession before Iraq invaded Kuwait," says Allen Sinai, chief economist for the consulting firm Boston Company Economic Advisors. "The invasion was just the nail in the coffin." Richard Hoey, chief U.S. economist for the British investment firm Barclays de Zoete Wedd, concurs: "Only the severity of the recession is uncertain...
...UNCERTAIN GRACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIAO SALGADO, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship, though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial underpinnings of life -- tradition, community and work -- that give suffering a meaning. Through...
...uncertain terms. Immediately before thefateful flub, Restic had called his last timeoutto talk to his starting signal-caller...
Because Hope is a relative newcomer to the world of University policy-making--she was appointed to the Corporation two years ago--many are still uncertain about what role she will play in the presidential selection process. But those who know Hope's work outside Harvard say she will definitely have...