Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House head counters had identified only 50 Senate votes for Foster by the end of the week-still one short of confirmation. The Christian Coalition plans to lobby Senators until the vote. Dole too can refuse to bring the nomination to the floor. His taste for blood, however, is uncertain-despite his courtship of the religious right. No candidate wants to highlight the differences between moderate Republicans and the anti-abortion right...
Dennis L. Jones, director of the Northeast Regional Office of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said federal investigators had found impurities, which they have yet to identify, in the wreckage of the helicopter's engine but are still uncertain about the cause of the crash...
...York Times, the report filed by the committee (which has yet to be presented) is sharply critical of Mack's scholarly methods even as it defends his right to think and write about any subject that interests him. What will become of the report is itself uncertain. Again according to the Times, Dean Tosteson could do anything from recommending that Mack's tenure be rescinded to congratulating him for his intellectual honesty...
...problem is not that the American people do not have enough weapons, nor that they do not have powerful enough weapons. The bombing shows in no uncertain terms that the right to keep and bear arms is protected, but it shows equally clearly that a few extremists exercising these rights can kill hundreds of innocent citizens...
This year's Opening Day game broadened my thinking about sports even more because I realized that I was uncertain why I had returned to Fenway Park. I paged through the complimentary program (the owners still don't get it, do they?) and recognized maybe half of the names on the Red Sox roster and virtually none on the Twins. Then I remembered that I could have easily named the starting line-ups of the entire American League not too many years...