Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just how these financial questions will affect the Design School's academic planning process is uncertain...
...drawn on all the forest-protection of issues that what was originally intended to be a legally binding forestry convention was watered down months ago to a nonbinding "statement of principles" that will probably be adopted at Rio. Whether a full-fledged treaty will be negotiated later is still uncertain...
...vote, and a majority of the 100-member body is necessary. On Jan. 6, when the action would start, Dan Quayle would still be Vice President. In his constitutional role as president of the Senate, he could preside over the session dealing with his fate. Legal experts are uncertain, however, whether Quayle could cast a decisive tie-breaking vote on this question, as he can on legislation...
...letter claiming responsibility for Reso's abduction had been issued by a group called the Rainbow Warriors. The name Rainbow Warrior belongs to a Greenpeace ship destroyed by the French government in 1985. Greenpeace, an international environmental group, vehemently denies any involvement in the Reso incident. Investigators are uncertain that the note is anything other than a prank, and they are remaining tight-lipped on the details of the case...
...astringent sense of % hierarchy, subscribe to a code of stoical reticence and are, in some respects, proud, isolated monarchies with more than a touch of xenophobia. The very qualities that seem so foreign to many Americans -- the fact that people do not invariably mean what they say, that uncertain distances separate politeness from true feelings, and that everything is couched in a kind of code in which nuances are everything -- will hardly seem strange to a certain kind of Englishman...