Word: uncertainity
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...College fills much of my own life today in a similar fashion, and this experience is so pervasive that it may have impaired my own recollections of the College a quarter century ago When asked to compare the College "now" to the College "then." I am uncertain how complete may be my memory of "the College then" More important, however. I wonder about trying to compare the recollected impressions of a twenty year old with the present views of a mid forty year...
...taking a definite position. "[Last fall] we felt there were moral issues that were at stake and only financial issues were being addressed. We hope that it can be dealt with this time keeping the moral issues in mind," she said. She said most of the staff is still uncertain about the idea of a lease arrangement, but is willing to consider it. "Many of us are still feeling we don't have enough hard facts about what are the implications of these things." McDonnell said the staff is planning a meeting at the end of the month to discuss...
...been written that there is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Until Eisenhower made his decision, and until the highly uncertain outcome of D-day was assured, it was still theoretically possible that Hitler might yet win the war, or at least achieve a stalemate that would leave him the master of most of Europe...
...style of the cold war, an era understood and perhaps even relished by oldtimers like Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Any challenge to Soviet interests now, whether deploying new NATO missiles or calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire," produces intense response from the uncertain rulers, ranging from the Olympic pull-out to last week's announcement that more Soviet missiles would be placed in East Germany. "Something we do not understand fully is going on in the Kremlin," says a White House adviser. "For the first time they may really be without a leader...
Both the plaintiffs and the chemical companies insisted that their side had enough legal ammunition to win the case. They agreed to the compromise in order to avoid a lengthy, expensive, emotional and uncertain jury trial. Although some corporate executives felt that the chemical companies had surrendered to an unjustified payoff, the share prices of the five companies on the New York Stock Exchange rose after the news. Some veterans felt that their side had sold out. "This was the settlement the chemical companies were looking for," said Lee Covino, a Viet Nam veteran in New York City. "The vets...