Word: uncertainity
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...facing up to the challenges that it posed last spring. Even as the council began to understand its own importance, it botched its responsibility. The ROTC controversy and the Vega concert fiasco were undeniable screw-ups, but they were the kind of screw-ups we associate with an uncertain beginner. Laudably the council was trying out its wings. A few false starts were to be expected...
Forty years ago this Sunday, Mao Zedong stood on a balcony overlooking Tiananmen Square and said, "The Chinese people have stood up, and the future of our nation is infinitely brighter." Infinitely messier is closer to the mark today. The economy's course is uncertain. Provincial and municipal governments will surely pursue their own interests despite efforts to restrain them. The party, with its ideology bankrupt, offers only order and is begging for faith -- and not getting it. How long can a government like that retain control and stay in power? "A regime that . . . is forced to fire...
...results of their highly controversial underground test of Compound Q, a chemical derived from a cucumber-like Chinese plant. Although many of the 34 patients tested with the drug seemed to show marked improvement, three have died. The deaths have not been directly attributed to Compound Q, but the uncertain results proved once again how important AZT has become to AIDS patients as a life-giving drug and a symbol of hope...
...there any substance to this life? Was Carsey a kind of scapegrace hero for clearing out? Good, portentous questions, explored by his former friends. The answers may not quite measure up, and the author uses the novelistic device of the omniscient narrator, leaving the reader uncertain of how evidence was tracked down. But when Carsey turns up tending bar more or less happily in the Southwest, it seems that his problems may have been nothing much more than an empty marriage and heavy drinking. He spoke eloquently by his action, and has little more...
Farm gets as close to the sweat and slim profit margins of an uncertain occupation as any suburban slicker could imagine. Rhodes says he filled 42 notebooks during working visits to Tom Bauer's Missouri farm, and he seems to have used every detail from them, including the squeal of Bauer's hogs...