Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carlo Gesualdo, a madman, was nearly as successful. The bizarre chromaticism of Gesualdo's music may reflect the turbulence of his even more unconventional private life--at age 30 he murdered his wife and her lover, and then finished off his infant daughter as well, on account of her uncertain paternity...
Whether that will solve Con Ed's crisis is uncertain. It is trapped in a vicious cycle common to utilities: as its rates rise, customers burn less electricity and revenues fall, forcing more rate increases that cut usage further. But it has many problems of its own. The state public service commission requires that its rates be based on last year's costs. A 60-day lag exists between Con Ed's paying for fuel and receiving payment for it from customers; currently the utility has spent $107 million to generate electricity for which no bills have...
...fight. But last week Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois called in the Senate Democratic Caucus for a limited extension; to his own surprise, his motion was adopted unanimously. A bill embodying his ideas has a good chance to pass the full Senate, though its fate in the House is uncertain. The bill would permit the Cost of Living Council to reimpose controls on companies that violate commitments they had made earlier to hold down price increases and on industries that show marked inflationary tendencies...
...members of the council immediately condemned the new agreement as unsatisfactory and showed their dissatisfaction by convincing the council to defeat a Harvard petition for minor street repairs that had been before the council since October. Daniel J. Clinton, Saundra Graham, and Henry F. Owens III said in no uncertain terms that Harvard should be forced to make much higher payments to the city...
...When we haven't been able to resolve things it hasn't been because we couldn't agree among ourselves," he says, "but because we were all fairly uncertain over what was the right course...