Word: uncertainity
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Bailey said that while the Governor’s January budget included a $40 million dollar allotment to the Alliance, the hospital network had been uncertain until now about how much of that funding would materialize...
...Treasury are seeking to persuade private investors to purchase assets from banks. Although these private investors were an integral part of the issuance of these instruments in the past, they are not seeking assistance from the government. Instead, they have been presented with an opportunity to invest in an uncertain market that the government hopes will revitalize consumer lending...
...uncertain world of stock markets, there are a few events so unambiguously frightening that they guarantee an instant crash. One is a terrorist attack on the world's biggest economy. Another is a global banking collapse. South Africa has a third trigger: the departure of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. When Manuel, 53, resigned on Sept. 23 last year, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange fell 4% in minutes. Actually, Manuel wasn't going anywhere. President Thabo Mbeki had been ousted in an internal party coup a few days earlier and protocol demanded Manuel step down before being reappointed by Mbeki's successor...
...even Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine Scott T. Weiss—who said he has been continuously funded by the NIH for 30 years and works in a field often prioritized for funding—said that grant money is always uncertain...
...predecessors, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declines to bluff when he doesn't know the answer. When he was asked on Wednesday about the best strategy for the war in Afghanistan, he shrugged. "Unlike Iraq and some of the other problems, this is an area where I've been somewhat uncertain in my own mind what the right path forward is," he said with weapons-grade candor rarely heard from the Pentagon podium...