Word: uncertainity
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...examines global trouble spots from the heights. His view of the struggle below goes far beyond armies. He sees U.S. national security concerns in terms of critical raw materials and the potential collisions of exploding populations as well as in numbers of tanks and planes. The author of The Uncertain Trumpet, which questioned the doctrine of massive nuclear retaliation, sounds a compelling note in a plan for national strength that comes not only from scholarship but from a life of action...
...could derail Harvard's cogeneration train. But even the opposition is readying itself for what some among them say is the inevitable opening of MATEP less than a year from now. If--and it appears to be when--the diesels start operating, the train will head on a new, uncertain and perhaps equally dangerous course. One resident of Brookline promises "a continued battle until they show they're concerned about this area. Unless they want this to go on forever, they have to show us they really care...
Elections amid uncertain growth and 20%-plus inflation...
...hours at 22 major airports and limited flights nationally to about 75% of normal, even the fewer airliners flying were not full. In what is normally the heaviest travel month, millions of potential passengers were staying on the ground, apparently worried about unsafe skies, or shying away from the uncertain schedules. The airlines reported losses of nearly $30 million...
...that "it is absurd to base the strategy of the West on the credibility of the threat of mutual suicide." But a senior German general says the bedrock of NATO is still that "the risk to the aggressor must be incalculable," by which he means both immense and uncertain. That may be a better place to leave...