Word: uncertainity
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Turns out that the Pentagon had the same idea. Several months ago, the Department of Defense had scheduled an early April meeting of some of its officers at the sprawling Hershey convention center. But since the situation created by Three Mile Island was, ahem, "so uncertain," as one source put it, the brass decided to beat a strategic retreat. They rescheduled their meeting at Ocean City, Md., out of fallout range...
...MORI sampling of voters suggested that this Thursday's election had become too close to call. Beyond that, other polls indicated that Callaghan had a 19% lead over his Tory rival in popularity and that up to one-fifth of the electorate was undecided. Among those uncertain voters were millions of working-class housewives, who were Thatcher's prime target on her electoral blitz...
...said he would not sign the Faculty letter because he is uncertain that corporate withdrawal from South Africa would benefit blacks in that country...
...beefy ex-dictator's exact location was uncertain, the second most wanted figure in Big Daddy's reign of terror turned up fairly quickly: Robert Astles, a white, British-born onetime road-construction foreman who advised Amin on the uses of repression as well as on his public relations buffoonery. Kenyan police arrested Astles after he had crossed Lake Victoria by speedboat from Uganda. Astles once was close to Milton Obote, whom Amin ousted as President in 1971; in time he turned adviser to Amin and soon became a main architect of the dreaded State Research Bureau...
...pass a collection cup for the fellows who reach the top of corporate America's greasy pole, those who make big money as hired managers are a small minority. Down in the trenches, which is anywhere below the senior vice president level, the rewards are moderate and uncertain. A lot of bank vice presidents and middle managers in heavy manufacturing are lucky to crack $35,000; they commonly get a title in lieu of money...