Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are some very uncertain aspects to this scheme. The most important is whether a teaching fellow or an instructor would be willing to pay the 100-plus dollars a month rent for a one-bedroom apartment. While plans for the building have not yet been drawn, architects say it is impossible to build decent new housing which would rent for any less in this area. Yet this figure represents over a third of an instructor's salary. Were such a project built, the insurance company would probably find the University options unfilled and the rooms occupied...
...Socialist Youth Federation is the largest political group for younger workers, students and office employees; it has 100 members. The Communists confess to the same trouble among their faithful. Their movement, camouflaged under the name Union of Republican Youth of France, has 100,000 members, many of them uncertain of their political sentiments. "You just can't talk politics directly to youth these days," explains a young Communist leader. "Take an issue like compulsory military service. Of course we're opposed in principle to a large army, but the only way we can arouse the interest of young...
Officials were uncertain whether Adenauer had yet accepted the invitation to Commencement exercises in Cambridge, but he will probably do so if the conference with Eisenhower can be arranged during his visit...
...small business, [which] ordinarily can make use of outside financing only at excessive cost . . . The objective of this type of reduction would be to stimulate investment in a desirable manner by a reduction of tax rates at income levels where individuals can afford the risk of losses that accompany uncertain undertakings...
Directors for the productions are still uncertain according to Haliday, but he hopes that Albert Marre, director of "Kismet," will be back in time for the last play...