Word: uncertainity
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...Administration was caught off guard by the intensity of the barrage and was uncertain as to what it meant. Were the Soviets getting ready to boycott the Games? If so, their East bloc allies would almost certainly follow the leader, although some first-class teams, like East Germany's, would be dismayed at the prospect of forfeiting their virtually assured bushel of medals. For the moment, the Administration believes the Soviets are merely exploiting the situation for propaganda purposes, possibly hoping to extract some concessions from Olympic officials in Los Angeles. The U.S. argues that it has lifted...
...phone ringing ominously in the night, as a voice asked voters whether they really wanted an "unsure, unsteady, untested hand" to answer. Declared Cuomo's political counselor, Timothy Russert: "The red phone beat the burning fuse. The phone symbolized Mondale's maturity. The fuse was hot and uncertain and excitable, and I think it blew up in Hart's face...
...said he was uncertain what he might write because. "I haven't sat down at the desk yet." Because of his heavy schedule and the lack of a crisis, he said he probably wouldn't complete any statement until the fall...
Observers at Yale are uncertain whether an agreement will be reached by the deadline set by the union. Some point to last week's strike extension as a good sign, but time may be running...
Adding to his drumbeat of nervous-making adjectives ("unsteady," "inexperienced," "naive"), Mondale last week called Hart "uncertain, delayed and confused" on arms control, the "central issue of our time." Hart had only embraced a freeze on most nuclear weapons, Mondale charged, after first supporting a build-down proposal that would allow both sides to build new weapons if they destroyed more old ones. The build-down, insisted Mondale, was "totally at odds" with the freeze. Actually, Hart had carefully conceived positions on arms control until he began doing precisely what he accuses Mondale of doing, posturing for political purpose. Hart...