Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration often turns on the working relationships of the people within it. Throughout his political life, Ronald Reagan has been surrounded by an inner circle of aides of proven talents and unquestioned loyalty. As he embarks on his second term, the old crew is dispersed and the course uncertain...
First, the FDIC's move should be perceived largely as a signal to the industry that board directorships should not be awarded as honorariums. One of the great risks a capitalist society faces is the uncertain stability and credit worthiness of its banking institutions. By refraining from nationalizing the industry, unlike most European socialist countries, the United States is placing great faith in the management of individual banks. The FDIC must use the opportunity of Continental Illinois's brush with disaster to remind bank directors of the trust placed in them. (The FDIC had to wait until media focus shifted...
That suit, one of four filed by the trade association, was settled out of court, but Harvard's attorneys "`have over' time been working with the libraries" to meet the often-uncertain standards set by the law, Martin Michaelson, deputy general counsel, yesterday...
...media to keep secrets voluntarily. The press honored such requests before the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 and on various occasions during the Viet Nam War. However, the Government's legal power to block publication if the press refuses to censor itself remains uncertain. In the celebrated Pentagon Papers case in 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. could bar disclosures only if they caused "irreparable damage...
India's Department of the Environment last July announced strict guidelines banning the location of plants that produce such hazardous substances as gases, poisons and explosives in areas where population growth is expected. But whether the ruling was supposed to govern facilities already constructed remained uncertain. More fundamentally, the safety restrictions ran counter to local governments' desire to attract industry. So far, not a single company has been denied permission to build. When the issue of the Union Carbide plant's permit arose in the Madhya Pradesh state assembly in December 1982, then Labor Minister Tarasingh Viyogi took pains...