Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large part of Carter's problem, as his aides emphasize, stems from the times in which he has been destined to govern. The historical moment is confused, uncertain, unpredictable. The enthusiastic liberal solutions of a decade ago seem to have failed; the rise of passionate single-issue politics, the decline of party loyalty and the new brittleness that resists compromises make the tasks of leadership more difficult. It is a time that offers no obvious set of answers to problems of great technical complexity. Carter, the engineer, has addressed energy, inflation, unemployment, the Middle East, the SALT II agreement...
...joyous mood that overtook Iran after the Shah fled the country was all but over. Last week Iran faced new violence, new tests of wills, new forebodings about an uncertain future that might involve chaos, coups, civil war. Without much visible success, the government of the Shah's appointee, Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, struggled for both popularity and credibility. Led by generals fiercely loyal to the Shah, the army stayed on the alert, clashing sporadically with opponents of the monarch. At week's end, Bakhtiar made a dramatic bid to break the impasse. He offered to meet early...
...scientific studies of marijuana are uncertain, the studies on cocaine are even more mysterious. When the drug's active ingredient was chemically isolated in the 1860s, doctors soon found that cocaine was valuable as a local anesthetic. They also found that it acted as a very pleasant stimulant. Young Sigmund Freud used it and advocated it: "The psychic effect consists of exhilaration and lasting euphoria...
...bought the series from Britain's ITC Entertainment in 1974, at a cost of $2.5 million. But it stayed in the vaults for almost four years while programming executives came and went, uncertain what to do with such a big and elegantly wrapped package. Eventually the network decided, remarkably enough, that it was not sufficiently American and sold it for $1.8 million to Mobil, which will now show it on 49 stations throughout the country...
...stood for 50 years, and that is a shift in sensibility so revolutionary that it is hard to grasp because we are right in the middle of it. It is the watershed between what we have all been brought up with as the Modern, and something new, uncharted, uncertain and absolutely delightful." But to understand the newness of this terrain one must first grasp the culture out of which Johnson came: the attitudes of the International Style...