Word: uncertainity
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...collar laborers and domestics who work long hours and earn low wages. In addition, many are illegal aliens living in constant fear of deportation. Even so, the prospect of returning to a country where the average annual per capita income is under $300 and the political future is still uncertain seems unlikely to set off an immediate rush homeward...
...statistics class, I turned in such a poor poll, with such a poorly worded question, I would have failed. The effect a question can have on both the response rate and the nature of the response cannot be overemphasized. The council's referendum is proof. Its results are immensely uncertain, with a large bias favoring those who want the council involved. While 59 (the percentage of "Yes" votes on question two) is approximately the upper bound on the percent of undergraduates who want the council to support divestment, the lower bound is a mere 26.5 percent (100 percent minus...
...July, all three senior members will haveleft within two years, and untenured facultymembers traditionally face uncertain futures...
Whether the reforms stand a chance of becoming law, however, remains highly problematical. Brown, who supports the recommendations, is uncertain that voters are yet sufficiently riled by the current system to demand a new one. "It's an insiders' issue," he says. "There's no momentum building at the moment." Indeed, California voters have indicated considerable resistance to public financing; Republican Governor George Deukmejian has vetoed such measures. The commission evidently had some doubt that its report would lead to immediate change. It projected $50 million in campaign spending for state legislative races in next fall's election...
...past. If that happened, they warned darkly, Aquino supporters by the tens of thousands would take to the streets. The Philippines, said Jose ("Peping") Cojuangco, Aquino's campaign manager, was "a powder keg." Agreed Jaime Ongpin, a wealthy businessman and key Aquino campaign adviser: "I have never felt more uncertain about the future than...