Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this leaves one thing that limits the profligate use of energy: high gasoline prices. To fill up the tank of a big car can run as much as $11 or $12 in places where gas costs more than 60? per gal. It remains uncertain whether such prices will cool the ardor of a nation for which freewheeling mobility has become a way of life. What is all too certain, on the other hand, are the consequences of the resumption of wasteful driving habits: the return of spot shortages, canceled trips, the whole headache of having to do without gasoline...
Kazana said she is uncertain about the reaction the center's closing will bring, but said that it would be a blow to the Harvard black experience...
...week's end, the Administration and Senate Interior Committee Chairman Henry M. Jackson had worked out a compromise between Nixon's proposals and a revised version of the old Emergency Energy Act, which Jackson will introduce this week. But the legislation still faces an uncertain future. The end of the Arab embargo could persuade many members of Congress that there is no need to hand over such wide-ranging authority to a President whom they deeply mistrust...
...uncertain days of his first administration (1964-66) Wilson liked to quip: "A week is a long time in politics." Last week he indicated that seven days would not be at all long enough. "This government is not a transient and passing phenomenon," he told the House of Commons in his first visit back as Prime Minister. "We are planning for a year or more ahead. " Bob Mellish, Labor's chief whip, was bolder, declaring: "I shall behave as if we were a government with an enormous majority...
...called Franklin Wills, a clairvoyant who phones the police and volunteers his psychic resources to help solve the killing. He relates certain details of the crime only the police chief knew. The chief is suspicious, but he calls Wills in. Throughout the remainder of the investigation, he remains uncertain whether Wills is a madman, a visionary, an opportunist-or perhaps the murderer...