Word: uncertainity
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...such uncertain circumstances, the Moscow government will need a great deal of help from outlying regions to organize the voting in December. But it is likely that many of the provincial towns and districts across Russia's 11 time zones will not rally to the task. They have a variety of reasons for not wanting to legitimize a strong central government: many of them are jealous of their natural resources, like oil, gold and diamonds, and want to maintain control of them and share in the profits from sales. And these localities fret that they pay ever higher taxes...
Last year's anointment of Tina Brown as editor of the New Yorker magazine reflected an attempt at repositioning meant to regain the confidence of straying advertisers. The appointment was also meant to reinvigorate a magazine which had grown indulgent and uncertain of its constituency and its style, preserved in the cultural amber...
What happens next is as yet uncertain--particulary because the current presidential administration and attorney general didn't initially bring the lawsuit...
...dean is concerned that two of the plan'skey aspects remain uncertain: the costprojections, including the tax impact, and theapproach to managed competition...
...They were not only uncertain," recalls a Cabinet officer, "they were big. The numbers bedeviled the process all the way through." Everyone knew that the numbers belonged to Ira Magaziner, the longtime Clinton friend whose consulting work for hospitals during the 1980s earned him a place as the candidate's most trusted health-care adviser. A tall, balding man with a weakness for jargon, Magaziner seemed to live in a world with its own brand of mathematics. He contended that Clinton could cover 37 million uninsured Americans by putting controls on costs and eliminating waste. Nearly every Democratic health-care...