Word: uncertainity
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Rooming is certainly an important factor in undergraduate happiness at Harvard, but the degree to which the Oxford-style House system will affect a student's four years here is uncertain. Riesman speculates that a small House with a lot of community feeling would reduce the anxieties felt throughout the College. Harvard he said, "has done much less than it might have to respond to the sense of anomie and alienation that students feel...
...Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock warned of the "worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression. The auto industry is in a state of collapse." Addressing the same group, Henry Ford II agreed: "I have never before felt so uncertain and so troubled about the future of both my country and my company. It is not too much to say that the very survival of our free society may depend on finding good solutions to these economic problems...
Most of the other OPEC members need the cartel and would probably not dare cut prices individually. Of course there is a point at which some countries would do better outside the cartel, but it is uncertain how low demand would have to fall before that occurred...
...margin of 52% to 35%, with 13% uncertain, they oppose any formal treaty pledging the U.S. to support Israel with arms and troops in case of attack. In light of the lessening U.S. enthusiasm for foreign aid and involvement, the minority figure is impressive. A majority of 53% are also opposed to stationing a permanent U.S. peacekeeping force in the Middle East while a hefty 41% are willing and 6% are unsure. Of those who oppose such a move, 16% would change their minds if Soviet troops were also part of any major-power peace-keeping effort...
...KIND OF movie Jaeckin envisioned demands convincing acting and a kind of consistency of intent missing here. If the actors seem aimless and uncertain of what and how much to express, perhaps it's because Jaeckin himself can't decide whether to be serious or satiric. There's a scene in which a man furiously takes a woman on a table. Next to her is a magazine lying open to a cosmetics ad which screams in bold face, "HELP IS ON THE WAY." We can only wonder what the hell Jaeckin is talking about...