Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teachers' strikes ended on uncertain notes in two of the nation's largest public school systems last week. In New York, 55,000 teachers returned to their classes with a settlement that left almost everyone unhappy. In Chicago, 27,000 teachers went back to school after the board of education agreed to give them millions of dollars more than it had in its budget...
...inside the schools. But outside in the community, the massive police presence has been responsible for the successive days of nearly peaceful court-ordered busing. How long these police will be retained and how long the city and state can afford to keep them posted around the school remains uncertain. It seems probable--in the face of milling crowds of boycotting students and angry parents--that if the police hadn't been present in such numbers on the opening days of school, large scale outbreaks of violence would have occurred. What is not so clear, however, is whether the violence...
What precise form a long-term agreement will take is uncertain. Most likely it would be similar to the one concluded a few weeks ago with Japan, under which that country committed itself to a certain minimum level of grain purchases-11 million tons annually -over a three-year period. If the Japanese do not need the grain, they will put it into storage to assist in rebuilding seriously depleted world reserves...
...reserves run out, the government will have to choose between alienating small proprietors by cutting off credit and subsidies; or betraying its working class following by allowing food prices to skyrocket while clamping down on wages. Either way, any existing revolutionary consensus will come apart and the outcome is uncertain...
...that he can be put on ice. Henke, a sour, anonymous-looking man lugging a brown paper bag of groceries and a fresh copy of Playboy, retrieves a rubber ball for a bunch of neighborhood kids. They ask him to give it back, and he looks, for a moment, uncertain. Then he throws the ball through the glass window of a nearby apartment, whose tenant rushes out and starts after the startled kids. Henke laughs all the way home...