Word: uncertainity
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Thus the Administration can expect only meager and uncertain rewards for the gigantic risk it took of having its credibility in foreign policy destroyed had the AWACS sale been rejected. Why it did so can be explained in only one way: the President and his aides never fully realized what a jam they were getting into until it was almost too late to pull out. That, in turn, points to serious flaws in the Administration's foreign policymaking apparatus, which have persisted throughout its nine months in office, in part perhaps because Reagan directed the initial energies and attentions...
...will probably drop over the next 14 months because of general inflation. Says New York Oil Analyst John Lichtblau: "Just to keep up with inflation this year, the marker crude would have to go to $36 per bbl." The long-range outlook for oil prices is more uncertain. If the world economy picks up in 1982, demand for oil would increase, and some individual OPEC members could decide to try pushing up the cost of crude once again...
...Reagan Administration officials three weeks ago that the industry would continue to be depressed until interest rates dropped to around 15%. Says Harvey Heinbach, a Merrill Lynch auto analyst: "The consumer doesn't want to commit himself to four years of those high car payments when he is uncertain of the outlook for business, for inflation...
...year habit is not easy to break, and although Acheson is uncertain about how he'll compensate for the loss, he knows he will begin spending more time playing the saxophone and writing and studying...
...most beautifully balanced American ensemble, with the richest, warmest sound. The sheer virtuosity of Sir Georg Solti's Chicago Symphony is without peer domestically, whatever Solti's interpretive excesses. The other two members of the Big Five are the Philadelphia Orchestra, once magnificent but facing an uncertain future in the hands of its new music director, Riccardo Muti, and the New York Philharmonic, a temperamental band, even under Zubin Mehta, that rarely deserves to be included in such fast company. There are worthy, even splendid, orchestras in such cities as Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Washington...