Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million in notes held by the Chemical Bank. An elderly married pair anxiously awaited payment of $25,000, half their life savings. A retired Brooklyn schoolteacher hoped to collect her $26,929. If she got it, she said, she would not reinvest it in New York's uncertain paper; she would put it into a lower-yielding but more secure savings bank. Finally, after a long line of people had waited for hours with increasing anxiety, Irving Gurfield of the city controller's office climbed on a chair at 2:57 p.m. and proclaimed: "It has turned...
...military and economic aid on a planned, prolonged schedule. Israelis regarded the commitments as legal ones; Kissinger regarded them as moral obligations. If Israel were to be attacked in another Middle Eastern war, the distinction would be irrelevant. But the dispute over what the promises did represent put an uncertain cloud over the new spirit of Sinai...
...planned to send out phony letters, using the stationery of the target civil rights group, to all donors. The letters, which were to have included King's copied signature, would have warned that IRS was launching an investigation of all donations to the group. The committee is still uncertain whether the plan actually was carried out and is investigating further...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said however that he was uncertain about the legality of the ban, but added he thought "the practice was not an acceptable...
WHETHER TIMILTY WILL convince the voters of Boston that he does represent a "viable alternative" to White's style of government is uncertain. If White's political organization is more fective in getting his supporters to the polls in the final election, then Timilty's chances do not look good. For one thing, a better turnout would ensure White of increased support in his traditional strongholds in black and elderly neighborhoods, where turnout was exceptionally low in the preliminary. Moreover, White's 11 per cent margin is considered by some analysts an insurmountable edge...