Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infantry and armored units scattered from Frankfurt to Bavaria. About 90,000 troops are considered combat ready. They include an advance guard of the Second and 14th Armored Cavalry regiments, which patrol the East German and Czechoslovakian borders, and the Berlin Brigade. The remainder of the Seventh is of uncertain efficiency...
Spending Up. Quite a few uncertain events must in fact occur to make an advance of $100 billion a reality. At the very least, these include: 1) congressional enactment of a stimulative tax program similar to, or even more generous than the one proposed by President Nixon; 2) reasonable success in curbing wage and price increases in Phase II; and 3) little retaliation from abroad as a result of the Administration's import surcharge...
...Kennedy name evokes too many unpleasant memories to make him a very powerful presidential candidate. And Kennedy himself seems politically tired and uncertain, preferring to take the safer stands on legislative issues rather than to undertake the personal political commitment which he demands of students...
Bargaining Lever. It is highly uncertain how long this impasse will last. The question of whether U.S. dollar devaluation should be part of the general change in currency values is more a matter of psychology and political prestige than of basic economics. The end result of a currency realignment accomplished either by foreign revaluations alone, or by U.S. devaluation accompanied by foreign revaluations, would be the same: the dollar would buy fewer yen, marks and other major currencies. A small dollar devaluation, however, would constitute an important symbolic recognition by Washington that the dollar's troubles are largely...
...uncertain an affirmation as Malamud has ever written. In past stories and novels such as The Assistant, A New Life, The Fixer, suffering usually stretched a character's awareness of life's tragic limitations. In The Tenant, men hack blindly at each other's flesh, and the author labors to discern some faint compassion in the violence. Like Lesser, Malamud too has had trouble finishing his book. The difficulty is underscored by an epilogue in which Levenspiel, the landlord whom circumstance has also made a victim of the combat, sets up a liturgical cry for mercy...