Word: uncertainity
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...students involved in a 1975 sit-in at Massachusetts Hall. Since then, the body has alternately been the subject of controversy and neglect. No students have sought positions on the committee in recent years, and Faculty members formally appointed to the committee for this academic year say they are uncertain of the body's purpose. Administrators said yesterday that they will seek undergraduate representatives through House committees but will pursue investigations without them if no students express interest in serving on the body...
...hire about 2,700 Pan Am employees, officials of the Flight Attendants Union fear that Pan Am members could lose up to 2,000 jobs. Partly as a result, the outcome of a vote on a new contract for Pan Am's 6,000 flight attendants is now uncertain...
...night of the alleged attack could not say without a doubt that she had been raped, though she certainly had suffered bruises and lacerations. A hair found on her body and semen on her underwear might have belonged to Dotson, but the results of those tests were also uncertain...
...skiers, says Farley, all are driven by temperament, and perhaps biology, to a life of constant stimulation and risk taking. Both the socially useful and the socially appalling Type Ts, he says, "are rejecting the strictures, the laws, the regulations--they are pursuing the unknown, the uncertain...
...took days for Iacocca to get over his hurt and bewilderment over the "sayonara" brouhaha. Clearly, he still has an uncertain feel for the hair-trigger proprieties of national politics. In the past his Japan bashing had never provoked such alarm. "Jesus, it was a closed meeting! These single- issue guys--I mean, what the hell's going on? How'd you like to do that for a living every day? I don't understand it." Joseph Califano, who has worked for the past three Democratic Presidents, does understand it. Says Califano: "The only guys who get shots...