Word: uncertainities
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...could--and could not--do, is leery of the buzzwords and silver bullets that ricochet around the Pentagon. "Be modest about what military force can accomplish and what technology can accomplish," he told an audience of midcareer military and intelligence officials last fall. War is "inevitably tragic, inefficient and uncertain," he said. So is taking on the Pentagon...
While Harvard waits for news of the endowment’s performance, the University must prepare various contingency plans to steel itself for an uncertain fiscal future, Faust said...
...forget that Obama's first few weeks weren't any more uncertain than some other maiden voyages we?ve seen. George Herbert Walker Bush's initial days in office were marked more by symbolism than substance - he was hardly trying to execute any fancy dives. Bill Clinton's first two weeks - studded by a needless political explosion about gays in the military and its own share of household employee miscalculations - made Obama's seem wildly successful. (See how the world is cashing in on Obama...
...level of horror few of us have anticipated," Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on a national television program. "The nation needs to brace itself for what I believe will be a very challenging time ahead. It's very tough and uncertain out there at the moment." (See pictures of Australia's deadly wildfires...
Hammonds also asked her colleagues to consider what should happen during next year’s inaugural January ‘J-term’—the four-week stint in next year’s revamped University calendar whose structure remains uncertain. Even the name of the period remains unclear. But Hammonds has settled on calling it the “January experience...