Word: uncertainity
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LIFE ON EARTH. PBS, beginning Jan. 12 a 8 p.m. (E.S.T.). In the beginning was the word, but David Attenborough and the BBC seem not to have been far behind recording the story of evolution from the primordial ooze to the uncertain present The result, a 13-hour television series, is PBS's gift for the new year, a fresh and often astonishing examination of a very old subject: life on earth...
...after a much publicized, 17-day hunger strike by Sakharov and his wife-now living in relative exile in Gorky by the Volga River-did the Soviets relent. Alexei and Liza now are settled in their own home in Waltham, Mass. "Our joy," says she, "is darkened by the uncertain fate of the Sakharovs. There are many prisoners of conscience. I am one of the lucky ones...
...economic role by moving to nationalize large companies and private banks and boosted state spending on everything from civil servants to welfare benefits. These policies, a representative of the association of small-and medium-size employers warned last week, are "killing the goose that has been laying golden eggs." Uncertain of the future, French industries large and small have cut back on new investment...
Edwards' task, therefore, has been mainly to push through deregulation and, as he once put it, "to work myself out of a job." But he has been uncertain about when and how to lift controls on natural gas and has a narrow grasp of the issues involved. His major initiative has been to support the troubled nuclear power industry, primarily by speeding up licensing procedures and pushing forward with the Clinch River breeder reactor in Tennessee, a $3.2 billion boondoggle whose principal beneficiary will be Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. At best Edwards gets a C. That would hardly...
...League officials this week seemed uncertain whether they would go through with the waiver request, but Jim Litvack, executive secretary of the league, and Bob Myslik, Princeton athletic director, are working to develop the league's case...