Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been written that there is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Until Eisenhower made his decision, and until the highly uncertain outcome of D-day was assured, it was still theoretically possible that Hitler might yet win the war, or at least achieve a stalemate that would leave him the master of most of Europe...
...style of the cold war, an era understood and perhaps even relished by oldtimers like Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Any challenge to Soviet interests now, whether deploying new NATO missiles or calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire," produces intense response from the uncertain rulers, ranging from the Olympic pull-out to last week's announcement that more Soviet missiles would be placed in East Germany. "Something we do not understand fully is going on in the Kremlin," says a White House adviser. "For the first time they may really be without a leader...
Both the plaintiffs and the chemical companies insisted that their side had enough legal ammunition to win the case. They agreed to the compromise in order to avoid a lengthy, expensive, emotional and uncertain jury trial. Although some corporate executives felt that the chemical companies had surrendered to an unjustified payoff, the share prices of the five companies on the New York Stock Exchange rose after the news. Some veterans felt that their side had sold out. "This was the settlement the chemical companies were looking for," said Lee Covino, a Viet Nam veteran in New York City. "The vets...
...manner most of the time tends toward the bashful, tensed but not combative. He cannot afford to come on too strong. Many of his 60 working hours a week have been spent on the telephone trying to engage strangers-mumbly, uncertain teen-agers-in serious conversations about their lives. He has called hundreds of high school seniors in his two-county district, most of them WaHi Blue Devils...
...decided the hotel's French chef Georges Mompezat, who sampled and loftily dismissed fowls from China and Hong Kong as too scrawny. He opted instead for 40 frozen toms from California ("There was no comparison"). His gold-embossed menu also called for fresh garden vegetables, always in uncertain supply in Peking, so a professor from the Peking Agricultural College was asked to oversee. Some came from the hotel's own greenhouse, but the canned cranberries had to be flown in from Hong Kong. Other ingredients were home grown: 176 lbs. of beef for the consomme...