Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with sin, and they pictured their own history as an epic struggle with evil. Today, however, while the repertoire of evil seems never to have been richer, as we daily encounter (and even relish) images of unimaginable horror, our grasp on the reality of evil nonetheless seems week and uncertain, our responses to it flustered and sometimes indifferent...
...executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the unauthorized spending of $332,400 in organizational funds to settle a sexual-harassment claim. Indeed, all the N.A.A.C.P. has to show for Chavis' 16 months at the helm is a $4 million deficit and an uncertain future. If Chavis wants to devote himself to a cause, it should be repaying the N.A.A.C.P. for the damage he's done...
...against them; while the Bosnian army used the following truce delay to make several advances of its own. The Serbs also renewed their infamous "ethnic cleansing," this time forcing thousands of women and children from towns in northwestern Bosnia and taking captive thousands of men who now face an uncertain fate. But after nearly three dozen failed cease-fires, the latest truce appeared to be holding at week's end. There was, however, a cruel new twist: makeshift natural-gas lines, flowing with the volatile fuel for the first time in months, caused at least two serious explosions in Sarajevo...
Depth of Cuts Uncertain...
...words "not guilty" sounded, as an uncertain smile flickered across Simpson's face, the watchers were frozen--until Marcia Clark's assistant Patti Jo Fairbanks leapt from her chair. "Oh, God, I gotta get the families up here," she cried. Her sudden movement set the others talking or crying like a lot of windup toys. Bruce Jenner stared at the screen, muttering, "You got away with murder, you got away with murder" over and over. Deputy district attorney Yochelson blocked the television, saying to the group, "I want to tell all of you that we did the best we could...