Word: uncertainity
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...nuclear future requires us to avoid large risks to the crucial values of survival and freedom that we must pass on to future generations, and to make continual efforts to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons whenever that does not increase risks. Such an approach requires hard thinking about uncertain probabilities and proportionate risks rather than succumbing to the escapism of popular utopian solutions...
MacDonald, a junior, is the link between past greatness and an uncertain--but potentially ripe--future. He skated for two years with Fusco and Smith, two years older than he, and now will be the elder statesman of the new first line...
While the new law's short-term effect on the overall market is uncertain, it is sure to encourage investors to reshuffle the lineup in their portfolios, selling stock in companies that can be expected to pay higher taxes under the revised rules and buying the shares of firms that will benefit from the changes. The losers may include companies in such capital-intensive industries as utilities, chemicals, semiconductors and steel, which will relinquish numerous tax breaks. The investment tax credit will be dropped, for example, and depreciation schedules will be stretched out from 19 years to 31.5 years...
Although some organizations repeatedly apply for and receive grants from the Foundation, minority group leaders fault the Foundation for not funding longer-term projects and say their organizations face an uncertain financial status each semester...
...report prepared for American investors labeling South Africa as a "chronic debtor" and an "import-starved" nation that is "closer to becoming just another African state." With the apartheid issue nowhere near a solution, more U.S. corporate executives came to view South Africa's social and economic future as uncertain at best. Says Lawrence Fox, vice president of the Washington-based National Association of Manufacturers: "Developments in South Africa offered the U.S. companies no good alternatives to departure under present conditions...