Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have become accustomed to the kind of campaign coverage the media dishes out each election cycle, the story that unfolds slowly from February up on through to November. There's the uncertain and quickly-evolving primary season, the feast of analysis during the summer conventions, the drama of election night. But even as the public is bombarded with information about presidential politics from the traditional sources of news, these outlets are producing less and less of the kind of information useful in deciding among candidates. And with the proliferation of "gotcha" questions, scandal hunts and polls, it is equally apparent...
...this impatience that Steve Forbes, as unlikely a jockey as we are ever likely to encounter this side of Churchill Downs, is trying to ride that discontent to the head of the G.O.P. presidential race. Whether he ever intended, or expected, to get as far as he has is uncertain. Even less clear is whether he has the staff, the steadiness and steel to switch from quirky joyrider to formidable contender...
...media with a national scope, such as newspapers (The New York Times, Washington Post and the LA Times) and television might be effective, both by influencing alumni and by making Harvard's need for external legitimacy more acute. The willingness of alumni to act on PBHA's behalf is uncertain. There may also be other actions that would be effective in giving involved students partial power in public service decisions...
...substitute. "In broad terms, this is a society that has lost its footing,'' says Kenneth Lieberthal, a scholar at the University of Michigan. ''Society is now without a sure sense of what China is all about.'' With no better alternatives, leaders emphasize stability and nationalism. "The government is uncertain," explains Robert Sutter, a China expert at the Congressional Research Service, "and that leads them to reassert control as much as they...
Zyuganov is a stolid apparatchik, and before last month's balloting, he said he was uncertain whether it would be better for him to run for President or to help elect an antireform leader who had better name recognition and more appeal across party lines. Last week one such candidate put his name forward: Alexander Lebed, a war hero and retired general. Lebed, who is immensely popular with the public and has a strong nationalist voice, said he would run in June and that he hoped to do so in cooperation with the Communists. Party leaders seemed irritated...