Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clark Clifford, 70, the Washington lawyer who has been a confidant of Presidents since Harry Truman's day. Clifford claims to see the definite possibility of greatness in Carter because he is unquestionably brainy, determined and dedicated. Another Washington figure professes he is not dismayed by the Georgian's uncertain transition. "I will give President Carter the benefit of every doubt until we see the performance," says President Gerald Ford...
...President Ford, Carter's touch was uncertain, his demeanor occasionally strident, and his 33-point lead in the polls melted to nothing. Fighting courageously, Ford came close to pulling a Trumanesque upset. But all along, Carter had said calmly, "I do not intend to lose." In the end, of course, he won by 51% to 48%; his plurality of 1,681,417 in the popular vote was far greater than the winning margins of John Kennedy in 1960 and Richard Nixon in 1968. The Democratic Party was Carter's, as well as the White House. Because of his impressive rise...
...Uncertain Future. Also, the amount of "free" oil is small. The Saudis sell only about 6.25% of their daily output on the open market. The bulk of their production is committed to four U.S. companies: Exxon, Texaco, Mobil and Chevron. They stand to benefit most from the two-tier system, but how much of the savings they will pass on to the U.S. consumer is unclear...
...psychoanalysts I've talked to are uncertain about my theory," says Robert Stoller, a psychoanalyst and professor at the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine. No wonder. Stoller has managed to come up with a far darker view of sex than Freud's. His theory, which he admits he has put forth with some "trepidation": except for a few rare individuals, human sexual excitement is usually generated by hostility. If his thinking is correct, Stoller writes in the Archives of General Psychiatry, "we must bear the idea that sexual pleasure in most humans depends on neurotic mechanisms. It is disappointing...
...Hospital and Medical Center, Neurologist Elliot Weitzman's suspicions about him were confirmed; as soon as Siegel fell asleep, the functioning of the muscles of his upper respiratory tract became so impaired that breathing would come to a total halt for as long as a minute (doctors are uncertain whether excessive muscle relaxation or contraction is responsible). Then Siegel would awake with a start, and in his groggy state would gasp for air with a loud snore. The loud gasping and snoring were repeated hundreds of times during the night, seriously disturbing his sleep...