Word: murkiest
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Could the closest and most bitterly divisive election in modern American history prove to be a boon to the U.S. economy? Absolutely, say members of TIME's Board of Economists, who gathered in Washington to assess the outlook after the murkiest presidential election in a century. With neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore commanding a clear mandate and the U.S. Senate virtually split down the middle, TIME's experts saw little risk of any broad and possibly destabilizing shifts in economic policy next year--regardless of who becomes the 43rd President...
...greatest wild card, the sector with the vastest potential and murkiest future, is biotech. Developments that will cure cancer and extend human life beyond age 150 will arrive in this century. If one enterprise were to commercialize these developments in some proprietary way, then it's easy to imagine that firm's becoming the world's largest by far. But these are matters of life and death, so it's just as easy to imagine political pressures preventing biotech from spawning the globe's biggest company...