Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merely carrying a copy of it on the street. "It is no answer," added Brennan, "to say that the statute would not be applied in such a case." The law is plagued by such vagueness, he concluded, and constitutes a "regulatory maze" in which a teacher would rightly be uncertain of just what he could and could not do. "There can be no doubt of the legitimacy of New York's interest in protecting its educational system from subversion," but its law has not been defined narrowly enough and therefore infringes too heavily on the First Amendment guarantee...
They are not encouraged by scatered reports that PLA units in some areas have alreadly actively committed themselves to the Maoists, while in other areas they are siding with the opposition. Such an uncertain situation forces army officers, as it does many others in China, to be wary of precipitate action. They may hope that by delaying they will gain time to pick out the eventual winner...
...skier to be arrested. Skiing down an Austrian Alp, she had crashed into another girl, jabbing a ski pole through her cheek, and then disentangled herself to schuss merrily on down without so much as a word. But because no law covers the situation precisely, it is uncertain just what will happen to the offender...
...high in December. The short-interest total began dropping-it was 2,000,000 shares lower at the beginning of last week-as the short sellers began covering themselves in a rising market. Buying also were mutual funds, which had kept about $3 billion liquid and ready during an uncertain autumn and now moved in with some of it to pick up favorites...
...players may use the emergence of the new league--the American Basketball Association--for bargaining leverage. The status of the new league is uncertain now, but there have been reports that it will lure away NBA stars...