Word: uncertainity
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Arthur G. Powell confronted the legacy of Eliot and his predecessors while serving as associate dean of the Ed School from 1968 to 1976. In his history of the institution, The Uncertain Profession: Harvard and the Search for Educational Authority, Powell chronicles the metamorphosis of the "Division of Education," which limped through the first 20 years of the century under the burden of unending criticism, into a respected graduate school. The saga, one of bitter disagreement and jarring philosophical gyrations, provides a sober backdrop for the current dissatisfaction with efforts to improve American education...
...Carter's backing, to restore $500 million in aid to cities, but they have been beaten both times. Meanwhile, Giaimo has won the agreement of House Republicans, who usually vote en masse against any Democratic budget proposals, to back his program-eventually. What the Senate may do is uncertain; its Budget Committee has only begun to draft spending and revenue proposals...
Such a tattered record ought to make an easy target in the presidential campaign. Neither of his main challengers, Teddy Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, has been able to devise either a compelling critique of the Carter foreign policy or an alternative to it. They seem as uncertain as the President over how to remedy what has gone wrong...
Those staying in Kabul face a future even more uncertain than the exiles queuing up in front of Western consulates or living in refugee camps in Pakistan. Although Kabul stores are packed with goods-intended for a $100 million tourist trade that has fallen to nothing -the economy is near collapse...
Funding is still uncertain for the program, which still must be approved by Columbia President William McGill. Brager said government grants might be approved for the project...