Word: uncertainity
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...future is uncertain because the depth of his talent is deliberately unspecified. He is also, in the best traditions of working-class heroes, a bit of a bastard. That'll Be the Day (the title comes from a great old Buddy Holly tune) has also learned from its predecessors in the school of angry British realism how to present industrial England with fierce but never condescending accuracy...
...dispute Dilworth's bewildering rush of figures, at times they could hardly keep up with them. "There is no grand design or overall pattern," Dilworth assured the committee. "The family members are simply investors. The aim and hope of the advisers is, in a most difficult and uncertain world, to achieve over time a reasonable total return for our clients...
...case for its claim that Bell over the years has unfairly obstructed the interconnection with the AT&T system of non-Western Electric terminal equipment, telephones, satellites, mobile telephones, microwave facilities and data-transmission gear. But the trustbusters' chances of forcing Bell to give up Western Electric are uncertain. They did not succeed in doing so the last time they took on A T & T, in a suit filed during the Truman Administration in 1949 That suit was finally resolved by the Eisenhower Administration. During an informal meeting with A T & T's general counsel at the Greenbrier...
...consent decree, which suggests Government approval of Bell's ownership of Western Electric, casts a long shadow. In any case, antitrust officials concede privately that they are so uncertain about the possible economic impact if they succeed in their suit that they are undecided as to how hard they should press for their maximum demands. Says one Antitrust Division spokesman: "We're leaving enough room to avoid any possibility of financial destruction of the company or destruction of the national telephone system...
...Vladivostok, the Secretary of State embarked by himself on another diplomatic tour, this one to China. It is Kissinger's seventh trip to Peking since he helped open the Sino-American dialogue in July 1971. Chances are he will find China's leaders more troubled and uncertain than on any of his previous visits...