Word: uncertainity
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...fire seemed to be gone. The man who once overturned a buffet table in anger at a player, spraying the clubhouse with hot dogs and mustard, now says that managing is "all a feeling of love." Whether he can test that theory until October is uncertain. Both Finley and the players obviously read Bibles different from Dark...
Just how badly the wage increase will hurt the export sales on which Japan is so dependent is still uncertain. Some economists believe that its chief impact will be to weed out inefficient, labor-intensive industries. The government reported last week that April's exports set a postwar record, rising a stunning 61.3% over the same month a year ago. The climb was led by efficient industries, such as steel and shipbuilding, that are benefiting from worldwide shortages. The latest wage increase follows one of 23.6% in 1973 and an average hike of 15% annually during the previous decade...
From what Great or Dismal Swamp in the American male psyche flows the Big Two-Hearted River? Where is the root of the city man's bloody compulsion to prowl the Big Woods and kill the beasts that live there? It is uncertain whether the source of that compulsion is the nature of man or the nature of boy, but it is explored with splendid eccentricity in this energetic first novel by Robert F. Jones, a senior writer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...
...Moscow would not oppose his peacemaking endeavors. The Israelis agreed to give up more captured territory on the Golan Heights, and the Syrians dropped rigid demands for a specific timetable for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory. At week's end the likelihood of a disengagement deal was still uncertain, but Sadat worked on as though the final outcome was inevitable...
Compared with other countries, Australia can hardly be said to have problems. Its economy is exuberant, its people are prosperous, and the country is still a magnet for talented immigrants who admire its opportunities and easy, informal living. Yet Australians are troubled-seemingly more uncertain and divided than they have been since they achieved independence from Britain 73 years ago. Their problem is a sudden political crisis that has precipitated the second national election in just 17 months, posing the basic question of what kind of country Australians want...