Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uncertain Imports. Yet the factors that were producing a squeeze before the embargo still remain. The U.S. normally burns about 17 million bbl. of oil per day but produces only 11 million bbl., leaving the nation uncomfortably dependent on uncertain and costly imports. U.S. refineries do not have enough capacity to supply unconstrained demand even if the country had crude oil in unlimited quantities. Production of natural gas, the second most important fuel behind oil, is running 5% behind demand. If Americans do not continue conservation measures, spot gasoline shortages could still crop up this summer and electric power would...
Both the theater and the company are products of the lavish if uncertain tastes of ballet's reigning Lady Bountiful, Rebekah Harkness, 59. A Standard Oil heiress (courtesy of her late second husband), Mrs. Harkness has had a somewhat tempestuous career as a patron of the arts. Two earlier companies she sponsored broke up in complicated spats involving their artistic directors. Presumably to avoid any recurrence of these aesthetic quarrels, Mrs. Harkness is artistic director as well as proprietor of the present company, most of whose 39 dancers are graduates of her highly regarded school of dance...
...that it creates is just the opposite, as the barriers of self-control and restraint are lifted and the drinker does or says things that his well-trained, sober self usually forbids. Only later, after a number of drinks, are the motor centers of the brain overtly affected, causing uncertain steps and hand movements...
...uncertain fortunes of the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center took an upward turn this week after the University proposed a new site and additional financial assistance for the beleaguered student center...
...nothing, he might have added, will happen, at least for a while. The informal gathering of EEC foreign ministers, scheduled for next month in Bonn, where Callaghan was to spell out in detail Britain's aims, has now become meaningless because of France's uncertain political situation. At the same time, Pompidou's death scuttled plans for a late May or early June summit of EEC chiefs to consider the British proposals...