Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all the activity, prospects for completing the entire mission were still uncertain at week's end. Said Flight Controller M.P. Frank: "This may well be the last manned mission to Skylab. If we can't fix the solar panel, we might not be able to keep the lab alive long enough to get another crew up there." Indeed, as concern grew about possible further deterioration of the batteries, NASA advanced the launch date of the second Skylab crew from the originally scheduled Aug. 8 to July...
...addition to this personal crisis, there is an institutional one. Not only have people become uncertain of their purposes, they don't know where they could turn for answers they could accept as authoritative. Events of the past decades have deprived the value-sustaining institutions of American life -- the family, the church, and the school -- of their authority over morals without providing alternate authorities...
Martha, meanwhile, again held an impromptu press conference on the streets of Manhattan. "John Mitchell was the honest one in the whole lousy bunch," she said in a tense drawl. "And whom do you think he has been protecting? Mr. President he has been protecting-under no uncertain circumstances. They tried to make my husband the fall guy, but he's the good...
That was clearly an exaggeration. The President's future is indeed uncertain. It is true that some of the men whom Nixon is appointing and relying on are, for all their familiarity, several cuts above the ones that have been dropped. They may be able to save him from his worst impulses, so assiduously encouraged by the departed palace guard. Optimists are talking about Nixon's "third term" now that Watergate has demolished so many of his second-term plans...
...central flaw in this work. How much faith can we place in a man's evaluation of scientific progress if he seems to have no conception of what science is? Like this whole production, Brecht's script lacks a tone of authority. The players and the playwright seem equally uncertain about what they are trying to do, and therefore equally incapable of achieving...