Word: uncertainity
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...Carter Administration's policy towards future space exploration, outlined in a statement released earlier this month, raises uncertain prospects for some proposed astronomy research projects at Harvard and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...addition, junior middle guard Steve Hollman twisted his ankle, and his status is uncertain...
...Curia factor and the search for pastoral skill and charisma make the outlook more uncertain for the most capable of the Italians, Giovanni Benelli, 57, the quintessential Vatican bureaucrat who assumed pastoral duties in the See of Florence only last year. For various reasons the other Italian possibilities-Baggio, Poletti, Poma, Siri-face even longer odds...
...Tokyo, increase the danger of protectionist trade wars as everyone runs to shield his market against low-priced U.S. competition. The Tokyo Round of trade talks, which has been dragging on for four years, is in danger largely because of the dollar. Finally, global inflation is being fired anew. Uncertain what the value of a product will be even a few weeks from now, both exporters and importers raise prices a little more to ensure against a possible loss from a currency change...
...inflation, low growth and severe balance of trade problems have left leaders in the chancelleries and the counting houses doubting the present and fearing the future. But nothing has been worse in a period of crumbling foundations than the decline of the dollar, which is the talisman of an uncertain world. A first move toward a more secure economic future would be to re-establish the stability of the dollar inside a more managed and predictable international money system...