Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cabot Lodge, can only add up to a confusing and uncertain result. Once, it seemed that either Rockefeller or Goldwater would emerge from New Hampshire with a clear-cut victory and a barrelful of prestige to help guarantee the nomination. Not so any more. Groused Goldwater: "I don't think the outcome can possibly be convincing...
...Pocket. North Carolina Mutual had an uncertain beginning 65 years ago in the backroom of a Durham barbershop. Barber John Merrick, one of seven founders, got some useful advice from Tobacco Magnate Washington Duke (his family founded the American Tobacco Co.), who explained business practices while being shaved. But Duke's advice was of little help when the struggling company faced its first policyholder death: to cover the $10 payment due, the firm had only 290 cash on hand. Merrick and another backer dipped into their pockets for the difference, then shrewdly waved the widow's receipt around...
...artificial division of the behavioral sciences into Social Relations and Psychology has resulted in two "uncertain affiliations of interest," Newman continued. The fields of sociology, social anthropology, and clinical, experimental and social psychology, are logically related to each other and should be combined in some way, Newman stated. He said that they are now divided haphazardly between the two departments...
Precarious Paradise. But this sort of thing is a social disguise for the heft of Cheever's work, which moves between tragedy and farce and realism and fantasy to present a heavy parable of American life-especially the life of the semi-migratory U.S. bourgeoisie and the uncertain ecology of their nesting grounds in the U.S. suburb. Suburbia, which in its modern form is barely a generation old, has so far lacked the kind of precentor or poet that the South, the West, the City, and the Small Town long since acquired. In John Cheever, Suburbia has its first...
...much effect the report would have was uncertain. After every such previous report, there has been a sharp drop in cigarette sales, soon followed by a rebound. Smokers tried to kick the habit, only to light up again. The answer lies in what eventually emerges from the committee's call for "appropriate remedial action." What should this...