Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration had pursued-at a cost of 12,000 U.S. lives and three more years in a divisive and unpopular war-in order to buy time until the South Vietnamese could defend their own soil. To the Administration, however, the Communist attack was an opportunity as well as an uncertain challenge. The White House is convinced, as one official put it last week, that "if the Vietnamese fight well, this will hasten the end of the war considerably." In short, Washington felt-perhaps too optimistically-the fighting could mean an end to the stalemate, both on the battleground...
...substances in question-of damaging public health. Many of the 32 items have never been in wide use because they are designed to control rare diseases. Most doctors have realized all along that flu and cold vaccines, which have been given to tens of millions of people, are of uncertain value. There is no challenge to vaccines used for combatting serious public health problems like polio, German measles (rubella) and measles...
...starting line-up, which was particularly uncertain, this spring, is beginning to straighten out. "We'll be strong up the middle," said Park, "at catcher, pitcher, shortstop, second base, and center...
...strike is still on, if you think about it in the terms it began with--no steering committee every called it off, most of the issues were never pushed through. But by the last days of May 1970 it was quite dead and, because it was such an uncertain strike, rightly...
...elusive fountain of immortality does more to set the scene than the other actors are later able to maintain. Barnum and Wally Know as the Young Man (Cuchulain), use thir mature voices to form a firm center of dialogue in a production that's otherwise weak in intonation and uncertain in supporting roles...