Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they launched Anne Klein II, a successful line of clothes for working women. But, ever restless, Karan was eager to assert her creative identity. Executives at Takiyho, the Japanese conglomerate that owned a majority stake in Anne Klein, urged her to start her own label, but she was uncertain. So in 1984 Takiyho fired her, simultaneously agreeing to back her new company...
...billion. Though Lockheed chairman Daniel Tellep termed the deal "financially attractive," industry analysts were cautious. Sales of General Dynamics' F-16, among the most successful military aircraft in history, are sharply down, and Lockheed now has two-thirds of the F-22 Stealth fighter program, whose future is uncertain in the tight budget climate...
...said he would rely on statistics and surveys to examine race relations, but so far his observations have focused much more on talks with student groups, tutors and house officials. Epps has said he wants to make the houses central to race relations programs. But it is uncertain how the houses fit into his stated ideas...
Ironically, the staff bemoans the "vague" and "uncertain" status of Epps' proposals but then indulges in hollow generalizations like the need for a "courageous" person with "charisma" to serve as Harvard's race relations czar. Perhaps the staff should consider someone like Robespierre. He had courage and charisma...
...political and economic reform. But even though hardship and turmoil have plagued their first 12 months of freedom, the Baltic states sacrificed too much in the struggle for independence to forfeit their dreams of a better life. Few Balts, after all, would trade their nation's future -- however uncertain -- for its past...