Word: uncertainity
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Whether the islands of the Maldives are subsiding is uncertain. Clearly Malé is not yet in the same pickle as Venice, where a combination of sinking land and rising seas has opened the city to regular inundation by storm-generated waves and unusually high tides. Still, it won't take much of a rise in sea level--between 6 in. and 1 ft., says Ahmed Ali Manik, senior environmental analyst in the Ministry of Environment and Construction--before the southwestern corner of the Maldivian capital will be threatened by the same problem. And a 3-ft. rise would allow...
Today, the liberated Matt Mahan revels in his newly uncertain future. After he gets home from Peru, he plans work for Teach For America, a program which places recent graduates in under-funded urban-area classrooms. After that, the slate is blank...
Forty years after V-E day, the world's greatest battleground is a Continent revived and prosperous, free from war for those four decades. It is also a Continent dramatically divided, slightly uncertain of its future, and sometimes sadly aware that it has yielded its place at the center of the world to the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...millions had heard the news, but the Allied governments still refused to confirm the story, apparently because of a Soviet request for a delay until a formal surrender in Berlin could be arranged. Several hundred thousand people milled around for five hours in New York's Times Square, sober, uncertain whether to celebrate or not. Ticker tape fluttered through the air, then stopped. Finally Mayor Fiorello La Guardia bellowed through a loudspeaker, "Go home ... or return to your jobs...
...nuclear-arms race between the superpowers is accelerating and that the battlegrounds of World War II could be those of a future East-West conflict. That fear is in a sense a permanent symptom of Europe's subordinate, postwar place in the nuclear-dominated world. In Western Europe's uncertain mood, governments and institutions have begun to recognize that there are limits to their ability to deal with change. Authority and self-confidence have come under some strain. Once mighty traditional labor unions are on the defensive, losing membership and influence. Newly militant interest groups are striking or demonstrating with...