Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bravely smiling Betty Ford at his side, was all tricked out like a cocktail cowboy in a snazzy Western-style shirt suit of blue-gray flannel decorated with white saddle stitching. For some guests, Jerry Ford's new garb, a gift from friends, brought to mind his past uncertain flights of fashion. Greeting Japan's Emperor Hirohito last year on a grand tour of Asia, for example, the President was dressed in a cutaway-with his striped pants hiked several inches above his shoes and his socks showing...
...that a Tibetan song-and-dance troupe is now being allowed to play across the country. China took over Tibet in 1951, and is annoyed by any hospitality shown Tibetan refugees. Washington is puzzled by such seemingly silly incidents, coming just before Kissinger's visit, and is uncertain just what should be made of them. The best guess is that the Chinese are warning the U.S. that it cannot forever support Taiwan and remain friends with Peking as well...
When the campaign ended last week, the old style had hung on, but by a margin so slim that it left the government with an uncertain mandate. Ecevit, whose Republican People's Party favors bigger social welfare programs and a strongly nationalist foreign policy, racked up big majorities in Ankara, Istanbul and other big cities. But Premier Demirel's support of free enterprise and his appeal to traditional religious values carried the normally conservative rural areas and older voters...
Autographs (or holographs), as distinct from mere signatures, are by definition documents in the author's handwriting - preferably signed by him. Their value depends on rarity, content -usually their historic significance - and the writer's eminence. With inflation and the uncertain stock market, many buyers have turned to autographs and other tangible investments like diamonds, antiques and rare books, thus driving up prices. "In the past five to seven years, business has more than doubled, even tripled," says Doris Harris, a Los Angeles autograph dealer. Reports Sara Willen, another Los Angeles dealer: "Good manuscripts on the average...
Still, the Boss was sufficiently uncertain of his musical future to quit school altogether. He enrolled in Ocean County College, showed up in what is still his standard costume-Fruit of the Loom undershirt, tight jeans, sneakers and leather jacket-and was soon invited round for a chat by one of the guidance staff. As Springsteen tells it, the counselor dropped the big question on him immediately. "You've got trouble at home, right...