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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dilemma. Amid all the delight over Kissinger's Middle East miracle, one group remained dourly uncertain. At Arab League headquarters in Cairo, 177 shirt-sleeved delegates of the Palestine National Council-a parliament of Palestinians hi exile-gathered to debate their next move. All the delegates also belong to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a conglomerate of six guerrilla organizations led by Yasser Arafat, which faces a dilemma: How can it continue to hold out against Israeli presence hi its homeland and at the same time withstand pressure from Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia to join the movement toward peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Sustaining the Momentum of Peace | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...Arkansas Public Service Commission will begin holding licensing hearings on the plant in a few days, and ACORN will try to have the commission rule that AP&L must install the additional controls. It remains uncertain how much good Harvard's laborious wrangling with the issue will do in the end, since the Corporation did not send the ACSR statement to the Public Service Commission. ACORN is now trying to have the statement introduced as evidence, and if it fails the statement will go unread by the authorities...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: ACSR Active But Students Care Little | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

...fire seemed to be gone. The man who once overturned a buffet table in anger at a player, spraying the clubhouse with hot dogs and mustard, now says that managing is "all a feeling of love." Whether he can test that theory until October is uncertain. Both Finley and the players obviously read Bibles different from Dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Alvin Dark: Dugout Disciple | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

Just how badly the wage increase will hurt the export sales on which Japan is so dependent is still uncertain. Some economists believe that its chief impact will be to weed out inefficient, labor-intensive industries. The government reported last week that April's exports set a postwar record, rising a stunning 61.3% over the same month a year ago. The climb was led by efficient industries, such as steel and shipbuilding, that are benefiting from worldwide shortages. The latest wage increase follows one of 23.6% in 1973 and an average hike of 15% annually during the previous decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Biggest Raise Ever | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

From what Great or Dismal Swamp in the American male psyche flows the Big Two-Hearted River? Where is the root of the city man's bloody compulsion to prowl the Big Woods and kill the beasts that live there? It is uncertain whether the source of that compulsion is the nature of man or the nature of boy, but it is explored with splendid eccentricity in this energetic first novel by Robert F. Jones, a senior writer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up the Creek | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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