Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vigorously argued for a redistribution of income, yet failed to outline in detail how it could be accomplished. He proposed such specifics as breaking up General Motors into five or six separate companies but offered scant evidence that such plans were feasible. On television, he was surprisingly docile, uncertain and easily intimidated. Harris' withdrawal will have little effect on the remaining Democratic hopefuls, other than to reduce the crowding in the field...
From such fragmentary evidence, a picture of the Early Hunters emerges. They were immigrants; the scientific consensus is that they came from Asia via Siberia, then dispersed east and south. When they arrived is uncertain. However, it is clear that they maintained a nomadic existence. And they were probably of Mongoloid stock, not currently extinct types like the Neanderthals...
...years at a stretch. Said Bernhard: "The government could then really get down to some work without having to spend half its time answering questions in Parliament." The predictable uproar that resulted finally died down when Prime Minister Biesheuvel assured Parliament that he had told Bernhard in no uncertain terms to button his royal...
...really work? The necessarily ambiguous answer is yes, no and maybe. Busing for desegregation actually involves three different situations, with uncertain application to communities that may face them in the future. Limited, one-way busing is used in many cities to bring small groups of black children from ghettos to mostly white schools, sometimes in suburbs. More extensive two-way transportation is increasing also, under court orders, to produce proportional mixtures of whites and blacks within all the schools of a system. Still largely unexplored are proposals to expand two-way busing to entire metropolitan areas, bringing children from relatively...
While the social results of busing may be uncertain, the academic ones ?at least for black students?are not. Choosing his words with scholarly care Massachusetts Education Commissioner Neil Sullivan contends: "The weight of available evidence gives credence to the hypothesis that students from minority groups or from a lower socioeconomic class, both black and white, achieve more when educated in mixed student bodies than they do when segregated...