Word: uncertainities
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...have the protection for it,” says chemist George M. Whitesides ’60, who holds one of Harvard’s 21 prestigious University Professorships and has been issued more than 70 patents himself. “Patents give you some protection in a pretty uncertain world for the amount of money you spend on these manufacturing processes,” Whitesides says...
...future seemed uncertain after Sony, Comcast and a group of private equity firms acquired its parent MGM in 2004. But now, along with "substantial ownership," Cruise and Wagner will set United Artists' production slate and Wagner will serve as CEO. Cruise will star in and produce films for the revamped company, which plans to deliver about four movies a year to start. Marketing and distribution will be handled...
...Fernandes, who is open to alternate ways of interacting with the hearing world, is forced out--and even she sounds uncertain sometimes whether she will prevail--she will be a victim of her culture's collective fears. But whether Fernandes leads it or not, Gallaudet will have to change with the times, become less a refuge from the outside world and more a competitor within it. "That's very tough for a place that has welcomed so many students of varying abilities over the years," says the trustee, who notes that historically black colleges had to endure a similar reconceptualization...
...Pope said what needed to be said, period. Radical Muslims have insulted, abused and murdered many non-Muslims and otherwise made their lives uncertain and dangerous for decades. It is about time a world leader stood up and called a spade a spade. Bill Evans Bainbridge Island, Washington...
...usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly." But with the plane flying at an altitude of under 1,100 feet amidst the buildings of New York City, it is uncertain whether a chute could have been able to help even if it was deployed. The next few days and weeks may make much more clear about just what went wrong...