Word: uncertainity
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...starters, the Ivy League, in all its infinite wisdom, eliminated the five-week supervised fall lacrosse practice of past years. Whether or not all the schools adhered to the ruling (rumors of holes in the nets at Cornell continue to persist) is uncertain. But Harvard did, with Scalise busy with women's soccer, and a surplus of laxmen wandering around Soldiers Field, searching for a place to swing their sticks. The vacant tennis courts behind Palmer Dixon were finally settled on, but a tennis court does not a lax field make, with space enough for only a few players...
Negotiations with the Soviets. The Administration was clearly caught off guard by Brezhnev's unexpected proposal for a summit conference with Reagan, and is uncertain how to respond. While no U.S. official is pressing for an early summit, Haig is receptive to the idea of some kind of talks aimed at defining a "code of conduct" that the superpowers should obey...
Just how all such nuclear-weapons plans might affect future arms limitation negotiations is uncertain. Weinberger objects sharply to the SALT II provisions. He told the Senate committee: "That treaty would have permitted an enormous further increase in So, viet offensive capacity while presenting the danger of lulling us into a false sense of security." Nevertheless, he added, "we are not abandoning hope for arms control, but we are abandoning unwarranted illusions...
...economic program is still too disorganized to have an impact on Congress. Yet resistance is developing. Last week Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy conducted a "policy forum," at which he assailed Reagan's plans as a "program of unfair sacrifice and unequal benefit based on an untested and uncertain economic theory." AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, with almost dreary predictability, attacked the Reagan budget as "the most costly roll of the dice ever proposed for this nation." United Auto Workers President Donald Fraser termed it "bad economic policy and worse social policy...
...predictably for a first-time effort, the structure of A Time of Fire presents some problems of its own: the opening scenes are a little rushed and confusing in their intensity, the final scenes too drawn out and uncertain, leaving the audience unfulfilled...