Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When President Carter put his comprehensive energy program before Congress last year, he envisioned a major shift from scarce natural gas and uncertain foreign oil to plentiful domestic coal. Coal use was to nearly double by 1985, to 1.2 billion tons a year. The Administration urged tax incentives for the conversion of industrial plants to coal, and it required that coal be used in many new factories and utilities...
...will not be encouraging ratification or campaigning for it," declared Labor Secretary Ray Marshall.* "The choice is theirs." Nevertheless, the White House increased the pressure for an agreement by preparing to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act. In the past the miners defied Taft-Hartley, and their acquiescence now is uncertain. But the President selected a board of inquiry to determine if a national emergency existed. Affidavits were drawn up certifying that the strike posed a threat to national health and safety, and plans were reviewed to go to federal court, should the vote be no, to seek an injunction...
...PRELUDE SUGGESTS this same flowing, uncertain dreaminess. Throughout the work, the HRO almost perfectly conveyed this delicacy and subjective use of different sounds. The horns evoked impressions of the tremulous colors of the forest and the unmuted strings suggested the dance of the faun. Particularly impressive were the excitement and fullness which the whole orchestra achieved as it suggested the faun's anxious chase of the nymphs. The winds, brass and violins showed just the right amount of restraint that Mallarme imparts to the faun in the poem...
...Wellford, will "put the work ethic back into public service." Managers will be able to hire, fire and transfer personnel more easily and offer cash incentives for good work. Given Carter's track record, there is no telling how hard he will push his proposal. It is equally uncertain how it will be received on Capitol Hill, since members of Congress have close ties to the established bureaucracy. But there can be no dispute that reform is long overdue...
...Zimbabwe African People's Union for war on Smith, and mortar fire and artillery barrages from Mozambique crashed into the rugged foothills and tea estates near Rhodesia's Chimanimani Mountains. In view of such reactions, the settlement between Smith and the three black leaders appears to be more an uncertain beginning than an end. The Prime Minister may recognize this. But in an interview last week with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, Smith reiterated his pledge to bring about black rule in his own way and at his own pace. Excerpts...