Word: uncertainity
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...already invested in operations there. Thus the American business presence in South Africa has continued to be a focus for con-troversy, as well as a major public relations problem for many large U.S. companies. Last week, in a move that was of great symbolic importance even if of uncertain consequence, several major U.S. corporations announced that they would disinvest their South African holdings and leave the country. In the space of four days, plans for multimillion-dollar sell-offs were disclosed by General Motors, IBM and Warner Communications and privately confirmed by Honeywell, which officially admitted only that...
...issues thus remain as interesting, as important and as potentially divisive as ever. Despite the changes in style, it is uncertain whether the Rehnquist Court will be able to provide clearer guidance than the Burger Court or reduce the flood of contending opinions, concurrences and dissents that poured out under the former Chief. For the general public, however, a valuable opportunity to look more closely at the Justices in action may be near. Unlike his predecessor, Rehnquist has agreed to study the possibility of letting TV cameras into the Marble Palace's courtroom...
...century's most famous mysteries, Anna Anderson claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, Nicholas II's youngest daughter and the sole survivor of the 1918 massacre of the Russian imperial family. But she died in 1984 without ever proving her claim, and her true identity remains uncertain. Now Anderson has again been the cause of controversy, this time over who would play her in a four-part nbc version of Anastasia shot in Vienna for broadcast this winter. According to Amy Irving, the producers picked her first. When she passed, the role was offered to Nastassja Kinski. Then...
...would be premature to call it a change of policy," he said, adding, "there will be some resolution this [school] year." Options for a resolution, Dingman said, include additional housing for transfer students and increased incentives for living off-campus. Whether any might "return the guarantee," is still uncertain, he said...
...lifting of all tax liability from some 6 million poor Americans and the abolition of many nonproductive tax shelters. But some of TIME's economists expressed concern that this complicated legislative contraption could dampen business investment and make the rules of the tax game even more uncertain for many corporations and households. In the end, the panel was almost unanimous in predicting that the new law would soon be followed by more legislative tinkering. Concluded Guest Economist Henry Aaron, a tax specialist at Washington's Brookings Institution: "Though not a landmark shift, the tax reform will make the personal...