Word: uncertainity
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Psychiatrist Donald Lunde, recommended by the defense, agrees that Bianchi clearly went through a repression of great hostility toward his adoptive mother. But a multiple personality? Lunde is uncertain. Part of his doubt stems from viewing the tapes. "At times," he says, "there are serious questions of whether hypnosis is really going on. There's a possibility that Watkins suggested the presence of other personalities. He asks questions early on that provide a kind of guidance. In one tape, he even says, 'If there is some other part of you that wants to talk...
...immediate result, the U.S., Western Europe and Japan face continuing inflation and rising unemployment, brought on, in part, by a disruption of the oil trade. Beyond that looms the danger of U.S.-Soviet confrontation. Washington policymakers, uncertain about the leftist impulses of Iran's ubiquitous "students" ?and perhaps some members of Iran's ruling Revolutionary Council?fear that the country may become a new target of opportunity for Soviet adventurism. The Kremlin leaders in turn must contend with the danger that the U.S.S.R.'s 50 million Muslims could be aroused by Khomeini's incendiary Islamic nationalism...
...These in turn brought forth a surge of congressional activity on the patchwork quilt of energy bills submitted by President Carter in the spring. But then followed a textbook example of what ails Washington. The Carter energy program, refined in July, still needed work. The White House leadership was uncertain, and as the gas lines shortened, the public began sending out confusing signals about what it wanted done. The lawmakers began to hesitate and reconsider. Complained House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "The Congress blows like the wind blows the reeds...
...this deterioration in production per hour worked. Among them: the heavy burden of Government regulations, the entry of so many untrained first-time workers into the labor force, and the decline of research and development, in part because managers have concluded that inflation makes the payoff too distant, too uncertain. Turgid productivity, which aggravated inflation and contributed to the debauch of the dollar in world markets, is as serious as any problem that the nation faces as it enters the 1980s...
...problems are compounded when the clergyman is a liberal in theology, which may mean that he is uncertain about the importance and accuracy of the Bible or even about the urgent need for biblical teaching. Seminary instruction in homiletics (the techniques of sermon preparation) is generally good. But to conservative critics this work is often undermined by Bible faculties. "Seminarians are not sure God is speaking in the Bible," says James Boice of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. "The professors think of the Bible as a collection of human documents. Centuries ago, even the heretics believed the Bible...