Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broader responsibility. In addition, since there is a strong demand for broadly trained administrators in relatively self-contained professions such as health, education, and urban planning, similar programs must be devised in the other graduate schools that serve these professions. Finally, since careers in public service remain fragmented and uncertain, especially for political appointees and elective officials, ample room must be left for students who wish to hedge their bets by combining an education for public responsibility with a law or business degree...
...accounted for about 30% of all tax-exempt bonds sold in the U.S. over the past few years. As money grew tight, investors began to look more closely ' at the U.D.C. 's unconventional moral-obligation bonds, which are tied not to specific projects but to the highly uncertain fortunes of the agency as a whole. Meanwhile, the U.D.C. 's welcome on Wall Street was wearing thinner by the month as a result of friction between Ed ward J. Logue, the agency's former president, and the New York banking community, where Logue was considered...
Rooming is certainly an important factor in undergraduate happiness at Harvard, but the degree to which the Oxford-style House system will affect a student's four years here is uncertain. Riesman speculates that a small House with a lot of community feeling would reduce the anxieties felt throughout the College. Harvard he said, "has done much less than it might have to respond to the sense of anomie and alienation that students feel...
Most of the other OPEC members need the cartel and would probably not dare cut prices individually. Of course there is a point at which some countries would do better outside the cartel, but it is uncertain how low demand would have to fall before that occurred...
...margin of 52% to 35%, with 13% uncertain, they oppose any formal treaty pledging the U.S. to support Israel with arms and troops in case of attack. In light of the lessening U.S. enthusiasm for foreign aid and involvement, the minority figure is impressive. A majority of 53% are also opposed to stationing a permanent U.S. peacekeeping force in the Middle East while a hefty 41% are willing and 6% are unsure. Of those who oppose such a move, 16% would change their minds if Soviet troops were also part of any major-power peace-keeping effort...