Word: uncertainity
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...Portugal's uncertain future was the corps of young officers of the Armed Forces Movement, the group that overthrew the Caetano dictatorship on April 25. The A.F.M. appointed old soldier António de Spínola, 60, as Provisional President and established an unlikely coalition government of Communists, socialists, military men, left-center groups and independent technocrats. But the government simply could not govern. Divided, buffeted by an annual 30% inflation rate and demands for price controls and sweeping economic reforms, lacking in political experience and hobbled by an A.F.M. requirement of unanimity on all projects, it could...
...Years. Nonetheless, it threw into stark relief the uncertain future facing the country. Europe's oldest dictator, after almost 40 years of ironfisted rule, has no obvious successor. There were fears, however exaggerated, that his death could touch off the kind of partisan fighting that engulfed Spain during the Civil War when, as the youngest general in the army, he gained power by overthrowing Spain's republican government...
...Institutions are changing in ways that their leaders cannot always grasp. Churches have been dramatically altered by internal disputes over questions of social activism, morals and even creed. Educators have grown uncertain about the social and intellectual purposes of education. Politicians throughout the West have trouble determining the boundaries involved in a free-enterprise system mixed with government control. Moreover, in place of the heady economic expansion of the past quarter-century, they must now cope with the counterfeit of growth?inflation. Even those who do not accept the gloomy prophecies of the Club of Rome realize that at least...
...Following complaints from black militants, Polaroid Corp.'s senior vice president and general manager developed a widely emulated policy for his firm's South African operation that includes a black education foundation and executive training. "We may not know for 25 years whether our pathetic and uncertain efforts will have any effect," admits the thoughtful St. Louis-born Wyman, who is widely regarded as heir ap parent to Polaroid Founder Edwin Land. A Phi Beta Kappa English major at Amherst, Wyman worked in the Nestlé Co.'s new products division, where he was concerned with foreign...
...contract to a special Army unit. His task: to plant sensing devices near an enemy supply trail so that "smart" bombs can home in on military convoys. He knows how to survive in the bush and is not afraid of spiders or the Viet Cong. But his motivation is uncertain, and this earns him the contempt of his partner, a hard-case Regular Army major named Price...