Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What remains uncertain is what Peking really wants for the estimated $1.5 billion a year (around 2% of China's gross national product) that it spends on missiles and warheads. Pads for testing medium-and intermediate-range missiles have been built at Huhehot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia, and at a new site in the mountains of Manchuria's Kirin Province, from which IRBMs can be fired over a 2,000-mile range to barren Sinkiang Province. But there are no signs that China is even ready to test a full-blown intercontinental ballistic missile, which would...
...design to destroy the Panther leadership?" In the same week, Newsweek posed a similar question: "Is there some sort of government conspiracy afoot to exterminate the Black Panthers?" LIFE gets some backhanded credit for saying in its Feb. 6, 1970, issue: "The Panthers claim 28 dead, but it is uncertain that more than a dozen have died of police bullets...
...family homes). Yet the impact on wages and costs will be small, spotty and slow to appear. Compared with the alternatives of imposing wage-price controls or establishing a wage-review board, as some of the President's advisers had urged, the suspension of Davis-Bacon is an uncertain remedy for a virulent inflation that top businessmen consider to be the economy's No. 1 problem...
Ebert closes the report with an accolade to President Pusey. "Finally, as we move into an uncertain future, may I say that we could do no better than to accept as our guides, the ideals you have so sensitively espoused and gracefully exemplified: abiding loyalty to the high purposes of the University, and a sense of joy in the eternal striving for excellence and enlightenment," Ebert wrote...
...there herbicide residues in the ground in the sprayed areas which will prevent or alter the regrowth of vegetation? The HAC is uncertain. They do know that bamboo growth may choke off hardwood regeneration and that crabs and weeds may prevent mangrove reforestation, but little is known of the fate of the chemicals themselves...