Word: uncertainity
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...sexual love between women, and her allusions range from the classical goddesses through fairytale heroines to such contemporary poets as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. The poems portray lesbianism as a brave new world, a terrain that women have been tricked (by themselves and men) into avoiding. To the uncertain, Broumas offers a refuge in eroticism...
Munch said yesterday that he has turned the case over to a private lawyer, and that it is still uncertain whether the suit will be filed in his daughter's name or in his name in his daughter's behalf
...chief export crops, but Asian and European marketing expertise has gone, and exports have declined drastically. At a time when coffee is at world-record high prices, 2 million bags of it are stockpiled in Kampala awaiting buyers. "They can still grow export crops," says a U.N. agronomist, "but uncertain delivery dates and past failure to live up to contracts have turned buyers off. They can't count on supplies any more, so they have counted Uganda out." The trouble is transport to market. Only 1 in 20 trucks registered in Uganda moves...
...migrant lives in a capricious world-the work routine is uncertain, there is no protection for periods when work is unavailable, and time off is unpredictable. Migrants are isolated from the outside residential community, and from other migrants with whom they must compete for work. Paradoxically, their daily physical setting offers no real privacy. The "average" migrant family has 6.2 members, lives in 1.9 rooms, and earns $2179 a year, under conditions like the following...
Onstage she seems small and uncertain, a little girl dressed up. She clutches the microphone to her face ("There you go, baby, here am I"). The mike is a sponge-covered apple on a stick ("Well you left me here so I could sit and cry"). Her lips, stretched wide, quiver so close to its surface that if she were to bring her jaws together she would bite circuitry. Will Eve ("Golly, gee, what have you done to me?") bite the apple? ("Well I guess it doesn't matter any more...