Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Banks were uncertain about how the measure would affect them. Robert L. DeGregorio, Senior Vice-President at Cambridge Trust Company, said it is too early to tell how much money the bank might lose because of the changes...
When Central America comes up, she mentions her 20-year-old son. "I did not raise my son John to die in an undeclared war for some uncertain cause...
Nonetheless, the surprising robustness of the economic expansion so far has hurt the credibility of the doomsayers. Says Economist Edward Yardeni of Prudential-Bache Securities, who admits to being uncertain about the impact of the budget: "After hearing most economists shout wolf for two years about the deficit, people are starting to wonder whether the supply-siders might be right after all." The swift recovery has made it difficult for Mondale to exploit the budget issue against Reagan...
...Tahitian art, Gauguin played fast and loose with it, basing (in There Is the Marae, 1892) a Tahitian fence on the design of a tiny Marquesan earplug. In his Tahiti, primitivism was cousin to Baudelaire's paganism and Delacroix's orientalism-a celebration of what Gauguin called "uncertain luxe barbare d'autre-fois" (a certain barbaric luxury of older times). It rested on sensuality and nostalgia. It was Paradise Depraved...
...fateful exchange with Ortrud in the second act's balcony scene evoked the stark contrast of light and dark that Wagner wanted. Alas, Elsa is not the most dramatically complex of Wagner's heroines, and Tomowa-Sintow was content to play her one-dimensionally. Although somewhat uncertain of intonation and raspy of tone, Nentwig admirably portrayed Telramund's moral degeneration...