Word: uncertainity
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...officials stressed that they are uncertain about how Giscard would allocate his time here. but Strickland said his visit is "pencilled...
Through no coincidence, the Soviet theme was also taken up by the French Communist Party daily L'Humanite. The paper lambasted the French media for their alleged anti-Soviet bias and declared that there were "no established facts" and only "inexistent proof [and] uncertain hypotheses" behind the reports of the Bulgarian-Soviet connection. The television networks were singled out for blame because, the Communist newspaper said, they were state-run and thus "public services." The failure to give equal play to Soviet denials of a role in the assassination attempt, L'Humanite piously said, was "serious, serious...
...larger perspective, the entire world will never be the same. The industrialized nations of the West are already scrambling to computerize (1982 sales: 435,000 in Japan, 392,000 in Western Europe). The effect of the machines on the Third World is more uncertain. Some experts argue that computers will, if anything, widen the gap between haves and havenots. But the prophets of high technology believe the computer is so cheap and so powerful that it could enable underdeveloped nations to bypass the whole industrial revolution. While robot factories could fill the need for manufactured goods, the microprocessor would create...
Despite such spirited eruptions, Jobs was still uncertain, displaced, curious. He graduated, dropped acid for the first time ("All of a sudden the wheatfield was playing Bach") and lived with his first serious girlfriend in a small wooden house along the Santa Cruz Mountains. As the summer ended, he headed for Reed College in Oregon. His father recalls what must have been a familiar litany: "He said if he didn't go there he didn't want to go anywhere." Jobs lasted only a semester but hung around the campus wandering the labyrinths of postadolescent mysticism and post-Woodstock culture...
...eight, he was studying in Berlin. In 1906 Rubinstein made his first trip to America. The notices were mixed; some praised his spirit, but others carped about his technical waywardness, a criticism that haunted him for nearly 30 years. Disheartened, Rubinstein returned to Europe, where he lived the uncertain, itinerant life of an aspiring performer, moving from hotel to hotel, from country to country, dining on lobster and caviar one week and on a sausage and dry roll the next...