Word: uncertainity
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Investors have balked at Turner's bid for CBS, which he valued at $175 per share, because he put no cash on the table. Instead, he offered a combination of securities in his broadcasting company and other IOUs of uncertain value...
...performance in 1983's night, Mother has firmly established herself as one of the nation's foremost character actresses. Although Bates is capable of gothic comic excess, here she underplays the mother as a frustrated housewife, aware of a larger world of culture and glamour outside somewhere but awkwardly uncertain about just what she is missing. Bates perfectly balances the ruthless selfishness of the mother's ambitions, and her shameless attempt at larceny to fulfill them, against the depth of her yearning to rise from the starving to the self-assured class. --By William A. Henry...
...years of painstaking tests in animals and human patients before it can win the approval of the Food and Drug Administration. In addition, a new firm faces the formidable tasks of equipping factories to mass-produce new drugs and building a national sales force to distribute them. Uncertain that the new biotech companies were up to the job, investors grew wary. Genentech's stock slipped to a low of about 17 in 1982, and Cetus dropped below 8 that year, from a 1981 high...
...nearby booklet and tots up the interest on a three-year vs. a four-year loan. For a Seattle man, Williams becomes an instant expert on zoning codes; for a listener in Rochester, he's an authority on inheritance taxes. And for a high school student who is uncertain about college, he is a sympathetic uncle: "Kinda overwhelming?" "Yeah." "Let me tell ya somethin'. You're just getting started on a great adventure...
...Safekeeping, a witty, Wodehousian gavotte from the confines of an English boys' school to the streets of Harlem, with several beguiling stops between, Mcdonald records the travails of a small boy, heir to a dukedom, who is orphaned during the London blitz and sent off to the uncertain care of a sodden New York City tabloid reporter. Within weeks the boy becomes the target of a Mafia hit man, thereby allowing the author to mix sociology and satire, goofy narrative and authentic terror...