Word: uncertainity
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...decentralized structure that the Rogers commission is expected to criticize. Its headquarters in Washington lost effective control of its operational arms at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The centers, in turn, seemed uncertain about their relation to one another. At the same time, the private contractors supplying and supervising the assembly of the shuttle's vital hardware often fell behind in their deliveries and succumbed to the pressures to produce, even if testing and quality suffered...
Unlike graduates of the economically uncertain early 1980s, students this year "communicated a greater sense of confidence that there is a job out there for them," said OCS Director Martha P. Leape...
Cuomo, for all his somewhat disingenuous reluctance, finds himself playing a central character in the uncertain saga of his party. In the Age of Reagan, Democrats are a party in search of direction. Cuomo has the potential to be the muscular philosopher-prince who can teach them to preserve what is best of traditional liberalism in an era of fiscal conservatism. He is, in fact, a kind of microcosm of the divided soul of the party. As the man who runs, as he likes to put it, "the greatest state in the greatest nation in the only world we know...
Tumanov's sweaty, mumbling performance drew open disbelief and derision from the more than 100 Western reporters who had been summoned to the carefully scripted propaganda show. Tumanov is the fourth "redefector" to show up in Moscow in the past two years. His fate is uncertain. He is already under a death sentence stemming from his original defection. Asked last week whether he expected to be punished for his 20 years of anti-Soviet activities, he chose not to comment...
Some local agencies said they are confident that they can continue to do do business as usual. Mike Yaniv of Ram Travel, a company specializing in tours to Israel, said that people are "uncertain" about travel but will go anyway. "There's no Rome in America," he says...