Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While they must remain outside the legal distance from the actual polling place, students will wave signs to sway the undecided or uncertain voters with "a friendly face," Chernack said...
...scoring with what amounted to half-hour, chart-filled TV commercials; Bush was coming up in the polls, though not necessarily in likely electoral votes; Clinton was campaigning hard again, warning his followers that they dare not become so complacent as not to vote. Though the denouement seemed newly uncertain, two things were relatively sure: to get even this far, given where he started, Clinton has waged a remarkable drive. And if he does hold on to win, his campaign will enter the textbooks as a model of how to prevail on the road to the White House...
Initially, U.S. officials were uncertain what to make of these disclosures. Washington finally decided that Hanoi -- or at least some officials there -- was sending a signal that it finally wanted to meet Washington's principal precondition for re-establishing diplomatic relations: a full accounting of the missing. The payoff would be genuine progress toward normal ties and an end to the 17-year trade embargo, possibly before the end of the year...
...Uncertain about who had jurisdiction, Markus Pirpamer, owner of the shelter, called police on both sides of the border. The Italian carabinieri, believing the body was that of an ill-fated climber, showed no interest. Their Austrian counterparts, who had already pulled eight corpses out of glaciers that summer, said they would investigate by the next afternoon. Pirpamer decided the next morning to go see for himself, and was flabbergasted: "I had seen bodies come out of the glacier," he recalls, "but this was nothing like them. Bodies trapped in the glacier are white and waxy and usually chewed...
...pressing his advantage during the presidential campaign, Mas won his immediate goal: a tighter embargo on Havana's trade. Whether that succeeds in shortening Castro's tenure is uncertain, but the pain it causes ordinary Cubans could be severe. What worries some of Mas' countrymen is that his personal ambitions may overshadow the good of a homeland he hasn't seen in 32 years...