Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...edge as she prods, sometimes viciously, at American popular culture. Bernhard may be trying for something similar with this book, described on the jacket as "a mix of memoir, fiction, invented memoir, and fiction that rings with the truth." This mostly means that these pieces feel unfinished or uncertain. Too many read like abandoned short stories or tiny ideas stretched unconvincingly over a few pages...
...happened. The consistent pattern of late 20th century flooding in the U.S. has been a decline in deaths proportionate to the area inundated, but a startling rise in property damage, due to increased building and farming on the floodplains and inflation in dollar values. Beyond that, all is as uncertain as the exact height of the flood crest and the precise time it will pass St. Louis. A 1955 book, A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore, quotes an obscure orator, one S.S. Prentiss, as saying, "When God made the world, He had a large amount of surplus water which...
...instance, about 176 new carriers were launched. All but one fell victim to intense competition from larger airlines and either were acquired or went out of business. The remaining survivor, America West, is emerging from bankruptcy. Will history repeat itself? Most observers think not. While the new carriers face uncertain skies ahead, analysts expect that at least a third of the upstarts will be able to stay aloft, thanks in large part to more protective regulators and trails blazed by their predecessors. "These new start-ups are a lot smarter and wiser because they've learned from our mistakes," says...
Taft said a fourth offer had been made in the field of plant biology that was still uncertain, but would not give the name of the prospect...
This squeamishness is a healthy thing. It's the tribute prosperity pays to democracy. In America we are committed to political equality and resigned, at least, to financial inequality, but uncertain and unhappy about the vast middle ground of social relations. What we want, or should want, is for financial inequality to pollute social equality as little as possible. Money should buy things, but not people. This is where the "servant problem" arises. There is no solution, but here are a few suggestions...