Word: uncertainity
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...jury's failure in the Edelin decision is not grounds for an argument against the jury system. Clearly, this case never should have made it to that stage at all. This was a case where both sides argued over uncertain points of law that should have been defined from the outset; at what age is a prematurely delivered fetus considered capable of life apart from the mother? What degree of separation from the mother constitutes birth? What is manslaughter? And even, what is abortion? The attorneys spent most of the six-week trial arguing not about the circumstances...
Unclear Returns. Yet Kissinger's proposal was greeted skeptically by oil users and producers and its chances for broad acceptance seem uncertain at best. In Western Europe and Japan, which are far more dependent on OPEC oil than is the U.S., critics argue that the floor plan is mainly aimed at getting the rest of the industrial world to safeguard a big U.S. investment in costlier sources of energy. The critics fear that they would be locked into a long-term commitment to high-cost energy that would offer unclear returns far off in the future. Japan...
...long-term impact of Kissinger's floor on OPEC is equally uncertain. There are no signs that the cartel will break up soon. Its members have proved that they have the cohesiveness to cut oil production at sharply varying rates in order to maintain the $10.80 price. Over the past year, the OPEC nations as a whole reduced output by 21%. Some countries have cut back even more: Iraq by 27%, Kuwait by 39%, Libya by 72%. They may well reduce production further instead of competing among each other and slashing prices. The producers feel that they ultimately gain...
...social program is hopelessly utopian--as utopian as similar plans put forth by Leftist anarchists and Rightist libertarians--and could not be achieved. In America, revolutionary opposition to capitalism often takes on a largely reactionary content, a desire to return to a simpler past rather than advance into an uncertain future. So, capitalism progresses while oppositions to it sporadically break out--but these oppositions posit a chance for return to a dream and a world which is lost...
...will stubbornly live on unimpeded in the face of social reality, in which case the existing system will somehow maintain itself; or the dream will recognize its fulfillment in the potential of the present, which will lead to a mass workers' movement. Which possibility will be acted on is uncertain: it is only sure that Levison is entirely right when he implies it is alone the working class's decision to make...