Word: uncertainity
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...medium-sized private universities like this about what should be done in the 1980s for undergraduate education," Pipkin says. This is certainly the aim, as Rosovsky admits, yet all statements of this sort are tempered by further disclaimers maintaining that "nothing radical will come of this" or "success is uncertain" or "the examination is worthwhile even if it fails." In a sense, Rosovsky realizes this is a giant undertaking that rests smack in the middle of the gray areas he's so uncomfortable with; he is, therefore, far from anxious to immediately put all his marbles...
Since assuming the presidency in August 1974, Ford has frequently seemed weak, uncertain, vacillating. The nation is at peace, the economy is surging, and no one questions Ford's honesty and decency. Yet the White House appears rudderless. The Administration has come down on both sides of legislation to aid debt-ridden New York City, to permit a single picketing union to shut down an entire construction project, to strengthen antitrust laws, to reduce income taxes. When his since-departed campaign manager, Bo Callaway, greased the skids for Nelson Rockefeller's slide from the 1976 Ford ticket...
...Murphy reached his conclusion after rejecting other possible explanations: uncertain standards of diagnosis, some special genetic factor and the oft-expressed notion that the best of the Irish have emigrated, leaving the most vulnerable behind. "Having ruled out everything else," he said, "one has to look for some characteristic in Irish social life...
...next President, provided both candidates are of equal stature and competence. Voters-Republicans, Democrats and Independents-consider Carter the strongest possible Democratic candidate: 48% see Carter that way, v. 34% for Humphrey and 3% for Jackson. At the same time, Americans split evenly, 41% to 41%, with 19% uncertain, on whether the Democrat or the Republican will win in November...
...returning smiles, the student porter is filled with a feeling of good will. He remembers how he arrived weeks ahead of most of his fellow classmates in the fall of freshman year, how he came to know Harvard with other members of the dorm crew in those first uncertain days, how the camaraderie of their labors had made them all fast friends. He is flooded with nostalgia as he hangs up his "Johnny brush" and rinses...