Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future is most uncertain for the empire's other big arm: the Hughes Medical Institute, which operates from unimposing quarters in Miami. Hughes set up the tax-free foundation in 1953 and said that he would ultimately will his fortune to it. As a start, he gave the institute his Hughes Aircraft Co. The company is estimated to have earned about $30 million last year on sales of $1.4 billion, mostly to the Pentagon and CIA for highly advanced satellites and guided weaponry, including target-seeking "smart" bombs...
...uncertain points of law been defined at the outset--had lawyers known what degree of separation from the mother constituted birth or even what constitutes abortion--the case might have been decided differently. The State Supreme Court must now acquit Edelin and return to women a symbol of their fundamental rights...
...wide. Despite the strong moral and financial support Rosenthal has received from students and faculty at Boston State, and from teacher's unions and professional associations across the state, the outcome of his fight for academic freedom, a fight he now plans to carry into Federal District Court, remains uncertain. What is certain is that if colleges continue to use tenure as a means of silencing those who espouse unfavorable political views, they run the considerable risk of turning their institutions into sterile indoctrination centers comparable to what the great German universities had become in the 1930s...
...letter to Bell shows, Virginia was uncertain how to deal with men. In his biography, Quentin Bell (Clive's son) goes so far as to say she feared them, tracing this fear back to an incident in her childhood when a Ducksworth cousin abused her sexually. As Nicolson points out in his introduction, that theory seems unlikely in the light of these letters since some of the most convivial ones are addressed to this same Ducksworth. However, it is true that she preferred the company of women to that of men and that she expressed no interest in sex whatsoever...
...reconstruction. In 1954, the Supreme Court had issued the Brown decision, declaring "separate but equal" schools unconstitutional. One year later the modern civil rights movement had begun in Alabama with the Montgomery bus boycott. Like any group of rational human beings facing dramatic change, Alabamians were anxious and uncertain...