Word: uncertainity
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...what is already evident is that the engineers at Three Mile Island, for whatever reason, were confronted by a situation they had not foreseen, were uncertain at first how to handle?and most unsettling of all, perhaps did not even understand. At the least, the eight other plants using the same design, and built by the firm of Babcock & Wilcox, might be taken out of operation until the problem is thoroughly analyzed. This is the approach used by the aviation industry, which sometimes grounds all planes of a given model when a dangerous structural or mechanical defect is found...
Students interviewed were uncertain when the sit-in would end. Keith W. Jenkins, president of the Student Senate, said yesterday. "As of now, it will last until Monday--maybe longer...
Fish is still uncertain about the singles roster, but sophomore Don Pompan has established himself as a fixture at number one. The doubles pairings, while also far from cemented, look like a growing strength for the Crimson. The third team of sophomore Bob Horne and recently-resurrected junior Greg Kirsch has played brilliantly of late, and the top duos of Pompan and Chaikovsky and Captain Kevin Shaw and Walker have developed into first-rate number two teams if unproven number one teams...
...returned underground to contemplate the chaos of his being. Yet the realism of Ralph Ellison is critical in that it seems to examine the causal factors which result in the nexus of relationships which seek to determine our reality. This reality, however, is problematic, as presumably it is uncertain and invisible within the context of the reality...
Even mainline practitioners are uncertain that psychiatry can tell the insane from the sane. In one experiment, Stanford's D.L. Rosenhan planted eight sane volunteers, one of them a psychiatrist, in public and private psychiatric wards scattered across the country and told them to behave normally. Many inmates quickly realized that the eight impostors were sane because the would-be patients kept taking notes. But the staff psychiatrists never did. Says Rosenhan: "Any diagnostic process that lends itself so readily to massive errors of this sort cannot be a very reliable...