Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to make sure that they control the 41 votes needed to prevent any shut-off or cloture of their "extended debate." Hatch claims that the opponents have enough votes to keep debate going through the first four or five cloture votes, but after that the count becomes more uncertain...
...brainwashing technique known as subliminal communication. A movie theater found that if its films included tiny blips of commercials for popcorn and soda -moving past so quickly that the viewer did not consciously realize he was seeing them-popcorn and soda sales went up. These results were highly uncertain, though, and the technique was abandoned. Since 1957 it has been against FCC policy to permit subliminal techniques on television. Last month, however, the agency made an emergency exception...
...poignant and strongwilled, with lines of startling grace: "The people I've seen/ They come in between/ The cities of tiring life." Put lyrics like that together with a typically luxuriant Bonoff melody and there are clear indications of a formidable talent. Watch her perform in her still uncertain way, singing sweet and simple, and sometimes flashing her fast, foxy smile, and there are strong intimations of stardom...
...White House is turning into bitter, destructive hostility-on both sides. Carter has been disappointing and in some ways inept. No denying his shortcomings: the failure to seem in charge and to set convincing priorities, the stubbornness alternating with vacillation, the moralizing alternating with often clumsy political maneuvers, the uncertain economic line, the poor staff. But there is too little recognition that much of the fault lies with the rest of us-meaning the country and the Congress...
Polls show the outcome uncertain, with nearly half the electorate still undecided. In a desperate effort to defeat Jarvis-Gann and appease homeowners, Governor Jerry Brown is backing a more modest Behr amendment. It uses a complex valuation formula to prevent local governments from increasing property taxes for homeowners by much more than the inflation rate. That is part way to a good idea. The solution is not holding down any one tax, but holding them all down, and the best way to achieve that is to curb spending by government itself...