Word: uncertainity
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...this column before, it was Lee who attempted to justify his initial support for ROTC by claiming that he "wasn't aware" of the military's policy of excluding gays and lesbians. Of course, Lee presided over a council meeting at which the issue was debated in no uncertain terms. Yet he still voted in favor of ROTC. In true Reaganesque fashion, we are left with two possible explanations: Either Lee conducted the meeting while in a coma, or he lied about his ignorance...
...disaster: the Soviet army invaded eastern Poland and proceeded to grab whatever had not yet been grabbed by the Germans. Actually, this had all been preordained in several secret protocols of the previous month's Nazi-Soviet treaty. Only the date of the Soviet invasion had been left uncertain. Stalin had a little difficulty in thinking up an excuse to attack, but he finally declared that he was acting "to restore peace and order in Poland, which has been destroyed by the disintegration of the Polish State...
...quite a few people who were not exactly radicals, from Rameses II to Louis XIV and Pope Urban VIII, thought otherwise and thus endowed the world with parts of the Egypt, the Paris and the Rome we have today. New culture is optional -- slippery stuff, ambiguous in its meanings, uncertain in its returns. Away with it! Let the corporations underwrite...
...perestroika and the leader of the nomenklatura," the topmost ranks of the party. "He must make a choice." Gorbachev responded at a Supreme Soviet session last week, referring to "provocative appeals" from some of the group's members and criticizing their description of themselves as "left radicals." He was uncertain "what good this will bring to our cause...
...industry contracts, many big companies are getting out of the business. More than 60 defense operations have been put on the block in the past two months. Other firms are building up cash reserves against an uncertain future by paring back their defense ventures. Minneapolis-based Honeywell, the leading supplier of lightweight torpedoes to the U.S. Navy, has sold three military electronics and communications subsidiaries since last August, and is seeking to shed a fourth. In what has become a military garage sale, bargains aplenty can be found. David Smith, a senior vice president at the Raymond James & Associates brokerage...