Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumors in Cairo that the exiled Nimeiri would soon stage a comeback, but his desire to return to power seems unrelated to last week's revolt. It was apparently a homegrown plot led by impatient brigadier generals, not the senior command. The political direction of the new regime is uncertain, but the draconian nature of its decrees indicates that the new leadership means business. Its first orders: the dissolution of parliament and political parties, a ban on political opposition, the disbanding of labor unions and the cancellation of newspaper licenses...
...Webster ruling it appears that pro-choice activists will marshall support for an active campaign to stop this backslide and prevent the anti-choice forces from gaining any further political strength. However, given that this issue will be up in the air for at least another year, it is uncertain whether that activism will be maintained at the level of intensity which it must be to make a real difference...
...defiance and devastation, the voices of determination and despair, shook the world. Here, protesters attacked troops with poles and rocks. There, a student lurched, his dazed face soaked with blood. Everywhere, the bodies fell, how many is still not known, while fires blazed, signaling the dawn of China's uncertain new world...
...drugs are extending lives, but it is uncertain whether they are adding decades of productive life or merely postponing by a few years the eventual calamity of early death. And many of the lives being lengthened are either dangerous to others or sexually isolated and childless. Says a 27-year- old military officer infected with the virus three years ago: "Meeting / someone to marry is going to be very difficult. And being celibate is not easy for anyone." Still, says Belinda Mason, "every day is a gift...
Researchers have known for some time that people may harbor the AIDS virus without showing symptoms or even producing telltale antibodies. But the duration of such latent infections has been uncertain. Now a study has shown that some people may carry the AIDS virus for three years or longer without its being detected by widely used antibody screening tests. If the results are confirmed, they could mean that latent AIDS infection is more common than was once believed...