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Word: certain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case will not end with the Los Angeles court, however. Universal and Disney are certain to appeal, perhaps as far as the U.S. Supreme Court. Furthermore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Pandora's Tape | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...more than charmingly antisocial in some of his. The movie is, finally, quite dishonest: an antibourgeois tract that is far from forthright in admitting where it's coming from or what it's aiming at. When the chuckles die, what remains is an uncertain moral and a certain queasiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fun Anarchy | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Friedel Ungeheuer: "An undercurrent of fear and confusion about what has been happening on the money markets ran through the corridors of the modern Sava Center, where the I.M.F. sessions were held. Cecil de Strycker, governor of Belgium's central bank, confided: 'The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain any more.' Many delegates joined in what Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, aptly described as a kind of 'competitive gloominology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shrinking Role for U.S. Money | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Many companies are searching for ways to make their benefit packages more cost-efficient as well as more satisfying to employees. One innovation is the "cafeteria" plan, which allows employees to select their own benefits beyond a certain level of required medical, pension and life insurance coverage. For instance, a middle-aged bachelor might choose higher contributions to his pension plan in return for reduced medical benefits, which he does not need since he has no family. At American Can, employees can forgo, say, annual medical checkups in return for an extra week of paid vacation. Says Senior Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Compensation Woe: How to Pay? | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

They felt uneasy about me, about being close to me in a small car. I think they felt not exactly certain of what I might do next. And I knew they would not have felt better about it if I had told them I didn't have the faintest notion, either, of what I might do next, today, tomorrow, or ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mid-Life Surge of McGee | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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