Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fears that a Soviet-sponsored Geneva Conference might be derided as a Soviet failure if it collapsed. Thus the U.S.S.R. is willing to let what it calls "bilateral separate deals," meaning resumption of Egyptian-Israeli talks under U.S. aegis, continue in tandem with Geneva discussions. So far Washington seems uncertain about what will emerge from President Ford's double summit-with Sadat in Salzburg and ten days later in Washington with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin...
...coachmaker: a coarse life in which he was, as he later lamented, "introduced by lechers and debauchees into the worst of company and places." One Sunday morning, suffering from a bad hangover, he blundered into a Quaker meetinghouse and shortly thereafter joined the faith. He was 23 and very uncertain...
After Saturday, the team's plans for the future are still uncertain. While the men's heavyweights plan to go to Henley to compete for the Grand Challenge Cup, the women have no similar opportunity. Thus they may not compete as a team again this year, and instead rest to prepare for the tryouts for the national team, which will begin in July...
...America is concerned-and here come the 120,000 reminders. The reception they get, after the first picketing dies down, will in fact be one indicator of what kind of people Americans are. One of the difficulties about democracy is that when its leadership is confused, divided or uncertain, then the demonstrations and fury of a few can be taken as the will of the many. Even Abraham Lincoln, that most convinced of democrats, argued that all the people can be fooled (or confused) some of the time: it was democracy's long-run judgment that he would...
...Guide. Whether that restraint will continue is uncertain. The House and Senate budget proposals will now go to a joint conference committee, which will reconcile the difference. The eventual joint recommendation will be a key guideline. Congress can later add new spending programs, but Ford would probably veto them. Last week the President did veto a bill that would have raised price supports and income guarantees to farmers (TIME, April...