Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bargaining mood worsened after the Transit Authority turned down union bids to have Quill and his eight colleagues released from custody. President Johnson sent Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz to New York to discuss the impasse with negotiators, and Wirtz returned to Washington to report gloomily: "The situation still remains uncertain and serious." In response to an appeal from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Johnson announced that the Federal Government would grant low-interest loans and other aids to small businesses and individuals financially injured by the strike...
...shift is due to a combination of outside forces. Investors are uncertain about Viet Nam and its effect on the economy; they worry over inflation, wonder about possible tax increases, fret, at least along Wall Street, about renewed rumors that the Government contemplates an excess-profits tax similar to that imposed on industry during the Korean War. And if only because of their uncertainty, they are starting to lay off stocks that even though presumably solid are still relatively cheap and considered to be speculative. At the old year's end and the new year's start...
Married. Joan Hackett, 30, rising Broadway comedienne (Peterpat), currently cast as Dottie Renfrew, a Bostonian of uncertain virtue, in the upcoming film version of Mary McCarthy's The Group; and Richard Mulligan, 33, her leading man; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Haring, a German Redemptorist theologian, cites what happened to On Divine Revelation. "The first text intended to define precisely the declaration of faith by excluding as many thoughts from today's theology as possible," he says. "The style was abstract, negative. The final draft tries to avoid any uncertain declaration, and thus leaves room for further research and dialogue...
...until 1 957 did the U.S. Supreme Court hold that it was not covered by the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and press. But even in that decision (Roth v. U.S.), which upheld a federal obscenity statute, the court was clearly unclear about the "dim and uncertain" line between obscenity and protected expression. Painfully, the court decreed three tests...