Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eventually have to be curtailed. But the committee stopped short of advocating an immediate ban. Instead, it recommended a delay of not more than two years, during which science could learn even more about the sprays' effects on the ozone layer. The suggestion makes sense. Scientists are still uncertain about the rate at which ozone is destroyed or replaced and need time to learn more about atmospheric chemistry. Nor is a two-year delay thought to be dangerous. Even at 1973 rates, a two-year delay would not increase ozone depletion by more than one-sixth...
...done in the South? Or was it that creation flagged once deprived of one powerful, catalytic genius? Whatever the reason, Southern writing today, at the moment of what may be that region's first national triumph in over 100 years, seems stalled between the glorious past and an uncertain future. The past, in fact, has become a burden to its inheritors. On their triumphant march, the older authors left much of the terrain scorched earth. Writers who now elect to deal in moldering mansions and history-whipped alcoholics risk unfavorable comparisons with Faulkner. Indeed, no one who writes...
...overall outlook, in short, is uncertain, but somewhat on the positive side. This may be the year that Harvard soccer recreates its glory days of the early '70s and challenges strongly for the Ivy crown. But don't be surprised if the sky over the Business School soccer field is ominously cloudy--as it was for last September's opener versus MIT--when the Crimson plays its opening game this year...
...A.I.P. trumpet will thus be an uncertain one this fall-and probably in 1980 as well. The party drew only 1.4% of the vote in 1972 with former California Republican Congressman John Schmitz, a John Bircher, as its presidential candidate. It hopes to be on at least 30 state ballots this year. With its rigid platform and small following, however, it is hard to imagine the A.I.P. growing very fast, or very large...
...nomination. The nine: Griffin, Rockefeller, White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney, Texas Senator John Tower, Campaign Pollster Robert Teeter, Campaign Strategist Stuart Spencer, Counsellor John Marsh, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Veteran G.O.P. Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow. When the consultants adjourned, exhausted, they were still uncertain whether the President had made up his mind. Not until they reconvened four hours later did Ford's final choice emerge, and then only obliquely: in his questions, the President kept coming back to Dole...