Word: uncertainity
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...federal tax on gasoline, perhaps to 9?. Doubling the 2% federal tax on interstate telephone calls might be included as well. A portion of the added revenue, estimated at $9.2 billion, would be turned over to the states, but the size of their share is still uncertain...
...white stick. The mocking caption: LEADER, LEAD US. For all its cruel imagery and satirical intent, the drawing is an apt image of the general's predicament. Although he has subdued all overt opposition by force, Jaruzelski is groping his way, amid formidable problems, toward a very uncertain future for Poland. -By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Warsaw and Johanna McGeary with Haig
...uncertain benefit of a Phi Beta Kappa key was impressed upon me long ago when I went on a job interview. As I waited, a clerk, who was pulling paper clips from folders, spotted my key and said, a little wistfully, "I don't wear mine any more." Neither do I. Donald A. Schelp Bellevue, Wash...
...visited Bonn two weeks ago to explain the imposition of martial law to the West Germans, confessed to a private gathering of diplomats and journalists that the military coup had brought Poland "back to square one." He gave the impression that the military, having grabbed power in Warsaw, was uncertain about how to proceed and might prolong martial law in definitely because of a lack of alternatives. The main problem, said Rakowski, was that the regime had no potential partners left to help repair the country's ravaged economy...
Jones' oblique wing is heading into an uncertain future, nevertheless. A full-scale plane big enough to carry 150 passengers should be twice as fuel efficient as the 100-passenger Concorde. But its maximum speed of 1 ½ times the speed of sound (Mach 1.5) would be 25% less than the Anglo-French craft's Mach 2.04. A likelier role for a scissor plane might be as a military patrol craft whose pivoting wing would allow both long flights and the bursts of speed needed for hot pursuit. NASA thinks the flying scissors also has a role...