Word: uncertainity
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Every evening, during the rounds of diwaniyas, a sort of casual salon of talk and coffee sipping that begins in the late evening, the Kuwaitis ponder their uncertain future. Says one politician: "We fear that Kuwait's freedom will be the victim of these attacks on our tankers." But it is more than just Kuwaiti freedom that is at stake. It is Kuwait itself. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Kuwait and Johanna McGeary/Washington
Without doubt, D-day was "the beginning of the end," not just of Hitler and World War II but of a naive way of life we once enjoyed. From that day on we were part of an uncertain and unstable future dominated by two new superpowers and were witnesses to the blossoming, often violent, of the Third World...
...land is falling,* banks are demanding collateral on formerly unsecured loans to their farmer-borrowers, including Block. The Secretary's press aide, John Ochs, says that since Jan. 1, Block has put up collateral on "most" of his loans. Just where all that leaves his personal finances is uncertain. His disclosure statement lists assets worth somewhere between $3.6 million and $4.8 million vs. liabilities of between $6.8 million and $9.7 million. But the statement could be misleading: it includes the entire debt of partnerships in which Block is involved, but only his proportional share of the assets of those...
...Mexican President's plea, Reagan told Shultz to try for a meeting. The Nicaraguans readily agreed, though an argument over where to meet (Shultz, due to join Reagan in Europe, insisted on Managua's airport, while the Sandinistas held out for the city itself) made the venture uncertain right...
Funding for research is complicated by the uncertain future of federal grant money and the increasingly complicated government regulations...