Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation in Algeria was not that explosive but nearly as uncertain. Debré came to sound out the political climate before next month's cantonal elections, in which De Gaulle hopes to see loyal Moslems elected who can discuss the promised "self-determination" referendum on Algeria's future. But before he returned to Paris, Debré took to the radio to make bluntly clear what has long been implied in De Gaulle's much-mooted plans for Algeria...
There are problems ahead, admits Eugene Fitzgibbons, Telemeter's Canadian boss. The cost of collecting the cash from coin boxes in subscribers' homes is still uncertain; the reliability of the coin boxes themselves is still unproven. No one is yet sure of the public's long-run taste in home movies or sports shows, nor can anyone be certain how business will fall off when families move out of town for the summer...
...133B transport program, which involved well under 100 planes, is due to phase out in 1961, and the A3D attack-plane program is due to run out next January, although orders for the A4D attack plane will run for several years. ¶ The anti-missile Nike Zeus has an uncertain future, but the antiaircraft Nike Hercules is still an important part of Douglas business...
...every investor wants to know is how to make money in the stock market. Wall Street has no end of theories on how to do it, but seldom has there been so much doubt about what the market is going to do. For this reason, in today's uncertain market, the technical experts, or chartists, who keep careful check on the slightest fluctuations of hundreds of stocks are most carefully listened to. Like horse-race handicappers, they try to guess the future on the basis of past performances...
Into Thompson Hall at Teachers College of Columbia University trooped some 60 graduate students for a final examination on mental hygiene. Of those who took that exam last January, one was a ghost: a "Mike Benson" had been hired for $40 to substitute for a student uncertain of his own ability to pass. "Mike Benson" was, in fact, New York World-Telegram & Sun Reporter Alex...