Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winterized. Though the other camps are located in warm climates, further delay can only demoralize the homeless Vietnamese. As TIME Correspondent Marcia Gauger reports from Indiantown Gap: "So far, despite the delays, the overcrowded conditions and the lack of privacy, most of the refugees remain unfailingly optimistic, if uncertain, about the future. They have a great dignity that must help them to endure the degrading circumstances of living in camps on handouts. For a people as proud and resourceful as they have proved to be, this must be a frustration that, if it continues, could become insupportable...
...that gentlemen's club of revolutionaries was Thomas Jefferson. Henry Adams wrote that every other American statesman could be portrayed with "a few broad strokes of the brush," but Jefferson "only touch by touch with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon shifting and uncertain flickers of semitransparent shadows." Many biographers have attempted to draw that chiaroscuro character, most recently Fawn Brodie in her Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate Biography. The result has been an overemphasis of the difficult side of his character: the spiky Freudian dimension, his relationship with Sally Hemmings, a mulatto slave...
...question is all the more urgent because the U.S., by far the most powerful capitalist economy, is recovering from its recent debilitating bout of inflationary recession and faces a particularly uncertain economic future. Production is beginning to rebound. Officially, the unemployment rate fell from 9.2% in May to 8.6% in June. But that was a statistical fluke, reflecting the imprecision of the Government's methods in measuring the number of students entering the job market for the summer. Thus the jobless rate could well go up again in the months ahead. Most experts expect the rate to stay above...
...ALVAREZ'S problems is that when he has something to say, all he can do is say it. When he wants a character to feel intruded upon, he manages it by narrative fiat: "he felt intruded upon." When Julie feels uncertain about herself, she looks in the mirror...
Raymond Jallow, senior vice president of the United California Bank, calculates that the turn-around came in May and the recovery will be "gradual but not fantastic." Leif Olsen, senior vice president of New York's First National City Bank, is still uncertain whether the rebound has begun, "but it may have happened in June." Adds Olsen: "The important thing is that the turn around comes when the economy is at a very deep level...