Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intervene. The U.S. spends some $80 million a year on this effort, and the fetal death rate in the U.S. has in fact declined since electronic monitoring was introduced in the mid-1960s, but there is little evidence linking the two. Moreover, critics say that the benefits are uncertain and that there is risk to the baby of laceration and infection of the scalp and respiratory problems, and to the mother of uterine perforation, pelvic infections and an unnecessary Caesarean section should the monitoring mistakenly indicate the baby is in distress...
...year was invaluable in the White House's successful drive for passage of the Panama Canal treaties. He told Carter last week that because of "serious misgivings about this treaty," he now tends to oppose it. Still, he has left himself some room to change his mind. Also uncertain of how he will vote is Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, who is regarded as one of the Senate's leading authorities on military issues. His voice is sure to sway some of his colleagues...
Demonstrations have virtually ceased while the bewildered students anxiously wait, along with the rest of the world, to see what will happen next in their turbulent homeland. The uncertain Bazargan government, at odds with Iran's revolutionary committees and subject to the Delphic dictates of the Ayatullah Khomeini, is not exactly what the youths had in mind when they called for a new regime...
Since both the extent and the effects of industrial concentration are uncertain, most speakers favored a go-slow policy to sort out the facts before trying to enact new antitrust legislation. Said Du Pont's Shapiro: "In view of our domestic economic needs and our international competitive problems, we would do well not to go off on major, and perhaps irreversible, social experiments until there are convincing reasons...
What most people at the conference agreed upon was that the debate over antitrust will continue and intensify-unsettled, and unsettling to the nation. Yet if so much is uncertain, perhaps the U.S. should be cautious about enacting new laws. In short: If you don't know, go slow...