Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largely to blame for the fact that there have been virtually no productivity gains in the steel industry during the past five years, although steel companies have invested $11 billion in new plants and improved processes. The trouble is that the President's advisers are divided and uncertain about just how to attack the work-rules problem because they are afraid to further antagonize organized labor with the presidential election less than 18 months away. But no officials would be surprised if Nixon called for reform of work rules, perhaps during the current steel-labor negotiations...
...silversmith on Cape Cod, while a 1970 Wisconsin graduate in anthropology is quietly living on a New York State farm, making harpsichords for sale. The income from a career in the crafts may be uncertain, but it is not necessarily low. Blacksmiths can make more than $10,000 a year, and according to one careful computation, a toolmaker today can net more in his lifetime than a judge. It is not, of course, the pay that attracts youth to the crafts; it is a chance to be autonomous and to have time "to look inside themselves," as one explains...
However, it is, uncertain if these odd training procedures had any effect on the team's surprising performance in Sunday morning's finals. The Crimson reached the semifinals when Michigan State failed to show up for the tournament and the Northern Virginia Aquatic Club dropped an 18-6 decision to Harvard in the second round...
Connally, of course, denies any deal with Nixon during the 1968 campaign. But when he and President Johnson returned to Texas from the 1968 Democratic Convention, they admittedly faced an uncertain dilemma. Neither man-especially the more conservative Connally-was particularly enthusiastic about Hubert Humphrey's candidacy. Johnson, unable to set aside his devotion to the Democratic party, chose to sit back and give only taken support to Humphrey's campaign. But Connally was more disillusioned with the party as a whole, and he perhaps found more advantages for himself, as well as Texas' powerful oil and banking interests...
...Israelis themselves are extremely uncertain, and accordingly uneasy about the answers to those riddles. In Washington, a U.S. official wonders whether Sa dat is not being more shrewd than moderate. Recalling Sadat's youthful reputation as a firebrand, the official mused: "You can't shed all your ideas, beliefs, and habits of thinking overnight." British Arabist Desmond Stewart, author of the recently published, The Middle East: Temple of Janus, says, "Where Nasser was a pacifist who spoke in bellicose terms, Sadat is a bellicose man who talks in pacific terms." Sadat's performance up to now as President, however...