Word: uncertainity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock warned of the "worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression. The auto industry is in a state of collapse." Addressing the same group, Henry Ford II agreed: "I have never before felt so uncertain and so troubled about the future of both my country and my company. It is not too much to say that the very survival of our free society may depend on finding good solutions to these economic problems...
...KIND OF movie Jaeckin envisioned demands convincing acting and a kind of consistency of intent missing here. If the actors seem aimless and uncertain of what and how much to express, perhaps it's because Jaeckin himself can't decide whether to be serious or satiric. There's a scene in which a man furiously takes a woman on a table. Next to her is a magazine lying open to a cosmetics ad which screams in bold face, "HELP IS ON THE WAY." We can only wonder what the hell Jaeckin is talking about...
...jury's failure in the Edelin decision is not grounds for an argument against the jury system. Clearly, this case never should have made it to that stage at all. This was a case where both sides argued over uncertain points of law that should have been defined from the outset; at what age is a prematurely delivered fetus considered capable of life apart from the mother? What degree of separation from the mother constitutes birth? What is manslaughter? And even, what is abortion? The attorneys spent most of the six-week trial arguing not about the circumstances...
Unclear Returns. Yet Kissinger's proposal was greeted skeptically by oil users and producers and its chances for broad acceptance seem uncertain at best. In Western Europe and Japan, which are far more dependent on OPEC oil than is the U.S., critics argue that the floor plan is mainly aimed at getting the rest of the industrial world to safeguard a big U.S. investment in costlier sources of energy. The critics fear that they would be locked into a long-term commitment to high-cost energy that would offer unclear returns far off in the future. Japan...
...long-term impact of Kissinger's floor on OPEC is equally uncertain. There are no signs that the cartel will break up soon. Its members have proved that they have the cohesiveness to cut oil production at sharply varying rates in order to maintain the $10.80 price. Over the past year, the OPEC nations as a whole reduced output by 21%. Some countries have cut back even more: Iraq by 27%, Kuwait by 39%, Libya by 72%. They may well reduce production further instead of competing among each other and slashing prices. The producers feel that they ultimately gain...