Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to most experts, the city's hospital system must be scaled back and better meshed with private institutions, which also get public money. Abzug says she is uncertain whether a large reduction in hospital beds is necessary...
Smith is under growing domestic pressure to resolve Rhodesia's uncertain situation. Last week Desmond Frost quit as chairman of the P.M.'s Rhodesian Front Party and joined twelve other Rhodesian Front rebels in the ultra-rightist Rhodesian Action Party. This new group rejects even the limited concessions the regime has been making to blacks. As disturbing for the Smith regime is the quickened tempo of the "chicken run"-the flight of whites. Between 1,500 and 1,700 now leave Rhodesia each month; the net loss to the country (after accounting for immigration) could reach...
...future organizing campaigns. If, however, District 65 can develop a more effective track record, if it focuses more on real economic issues rather than simple idealism, Harvard may have a tough fight on its hands. Having shifted their efforts from the predictable atmosphere of the courtroom to the more uncertain electoral arena, Steiner and Co. can no longer plan on smooth legal sailing...
...T.F.A.I.) became the Republic of Djibouti, Africa's 50th independent state. The most notable visitor present at the celebrations: President Valèry Giscard d'Estaing, who was scheduled to fly in from Paris for a few hours to offer congratulations. The newborn republic faces a most uncertain future. Last week TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs visited Djibouti and cabled this report...
...blacks on the streets, in the shops, in the factories. Locked into their own form of narrow white tribalism, whites deal with the blacks, pay them, talk of them in cliches, but do not really see them. Then there are "the blacks" as a large, looming abstraction, a vast uncertain threat. It casts an inevitable shadow over the heart breakingly lovely landscape, over everything that is done, every political act, every economic plan, every white hope. In the mind of the white South African, there is usually very little connection between the two incarnations: the houseboy, the factory worker...