Word: uncertainities
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...emits no light. Nobody yet knows what this dark matter is. One possibility is that it's made of WIMP--weakly interacting massive particles. Until the dark matter is identified and tallied, predicting the future of the universe on the basis of what we can see will be as uncertain as trying to predict an election by polling a few golfers down at the country club...
...practice endemic in dotcom-land--overstating revenues. In the Internet twilight zone, where profits rarely exist, evaluating complex revenue streams can turn more on esoteric judgments than on accounting canon. The right outcome can add billions to a company's stock-market value. "It's a dangerous and uncertain game," says Howard Schilit, president of the Center for Financial Research and Analysis, a forensic accounting firm that issued two early warnings on MicroStrategy. "You know your stock could be dead meat if results are a couple of cents short, so you may sit down with your accountant...
DEAR AMY: I'm in the U.S. Navy, currently on deployment. My girlfriend back home in Georgia and I are thinking about marriage, and I'm really uncertain. I love her with all my heart, but she's 21 and has a son. I'm only 19 and don't know if I'm ready to be a parent. My parents say I'm too young. I've always followed my heart in these situations, but now I'm very confused. --Nervous in the Service...
...most likely improve their pedagogy as years go by if they're teaching what they know. But if you take a young grad student who's never taught before and throw her or him into a class on a subject about which he or she is even vaguely uncertain, it's a recipe for disaster...
Whether McCain is ready to do this is uncertain...