Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater the stability at the level of ultimate weapons, the more uncertain it becomes at the level of conventional ones. The more the gap between limited wars and conventional weapons on the one hand and nuclear arms on the other is stressed in both word and deed, the less reason there is to fear escalation. The less reason to fear escalation, the greater the probability of limited conflicts. Hence the tension among allies, some of whom are mainly worried about all-out war (the U.S.) while other worry just as much about limited ones (Europe). Hence, also, vacillations among pacifists...
...university people. The premise from which you appear to be working is that of the corporative state, and I myself do not find Mussolini a sound guide to the principles of public service. There is no reason why I should be especially accountable to you, even on the uncertain assumption that you are truly representative of the academic community...
...Amber Light. At the end of six months, the overwhelming majority (73%) gallantly felt that they could learn to live with eight booms a day. But one out of every four felt that he could not. Still, when those who were uncertain about the advisability of supersonic planes were reminded that the French, British and Russians were already working on them, eight out of ten patriotically agreed that the U.S. should proceed with...
...Still Uncertain. Speculation about the possibility of another crisis in September immediately became a key to economic activity in the months ahead. "The effect of the settlement," says Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, "depends upon how steel users read it. The steel situation is still one of the biggest uncertainties on the horizon." If users continue to fear a strike-or fear that a steel price increase will follow any final settlement-they will keep stockpiling, thus postponing any sharp cutbacks in steel buying and production at least until September. If they...
...year-old janitor, who is charged with the holdup of the Reliance Cooperative Bank on April 20, suffered a heart yesterday morning. He is listed "satisfactory" condition in a Brighton , but doctors are uncertain he will have recovered to testify at the hearing...