Word: uncertainity
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...autonomous Health Service System Board, which must also okay the idea, opposes it. One of its worries is that applicants could lie about their status. "How are we going to check on that?" asks Board President Walter Johnson. Another, he says, is the uncertain cost. "We do not know where we're going, who we're talking about, how many people we're talking about." Supporters counter that the new single beneficiaries will be younger (thus healthier), yet not likely to make childbirth claims. And with even a majority of nongay San Franciscans supporting the idea, political...
...redeemed, at a price equal to the principal and interest thus accrued, and the University is allowed to change the rate of interest it pays out on the issue. "Both the seller and buyer are protected against change's in interest rate," explained Putnum, pointing out that with the uncertain nature of interest rates, investors are increasingly unwilling "to stick their necks out to buy bonds...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, may not be in a strong enough position within the P.L.O. to enter into any peace negotiations now. Finally, the U.S. has decided that although such moderate Arab states as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan would like to take advantage of the Reagan initiative, they seem uncertain how to do so. At the moment, Washington's best hope is that King Hussein of Jordan, who is scheduled to visit the U.S. next month, will decide to join the talks, either on his own or with Arafat's approval. Still, officials fear that the opportunity created...
Garvey said that his future is very uncertain, but what is for such is that he can reflect on a fulfilling post...
Skeptics have wondered whether genetically engineered drugs might become the synfuels of the 1980s, crippled by uneconomical costs and uncertain usefulness. Now there is early evidence that the skeptics may be wrong. Genentech, an industry leader, licensed for sale a gene-spliced substance that has just become the first such medicine ever approved for human use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Says Dr. John Potts, professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital: "This is really a landmark because it is the first practical development of a useful medicine by new techniques...