Word: uncertainity
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While most bets are on the passage of the reform, the safe money is still out. The represented communities will again vote heavily against the plan, and it is uncertain how strongly the disenfranchised neighborhoods will support the change. (In 1977, many voters--especially in the underrepresented wards--never voted on the question because it was hard to find on the voting machines...
...uncertain, I hesitated, and then I thought, "Shit, if George Plimpton can play with the pros, why not me?" I'd probably be embarrassingly bad, but the experience would be worth a Pulitzer...
...dilemmas faced by the protagonist, Mark, in his uncertain road to priesthood, are closely tied to Davis' own struggles as a writer. "At first I just wanted to tell people off, to kick ass. Like Mark, I just wanted to say things that were shocking and upset people, make them change. But you can't just come out and od that because it's not going to sustain an evening at the theatre. People will say, 'Big deal, you think that, so get lost.' You have to have structure, you have to have movement, you have to have humor...
...most advanced nuclear-energy program is in France, where 22 reactors now produce more than 30% of the country's electric power, the highest percentage in the world. During last spring's presidential campaign, Socialist Candidate François Mitterrand dismissed nuclear power as "costly and uncertain" and promised to delay nine proposed plants. But as President, Mitterrand has curbed his antinuclear rhetoric and now plans to halt only three of the plants. Reason: his government is counting on the energy provided by nuclear reactors to help fuel an ambitious program of economic revival...
...bankers and moneymen who gathered in Washington were indeed concerned with the U.S.'s uncertain economic prospects. While officials of industrial nations were privately worried that the American high-interest policy would push their countries into a severe slump, delegates of the less developed, nations fretted over the impact in their own countries of a U.S. drive to tighten up on World Bank lending and perhaps even further reduce the American share of world economic development assistance. Said one Mexican delegate: "Washington is arguing that more private financing is needed, but interest rates are already too high...