Word: uncertainly
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...Sept. 25 Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Posner stressed that Bush “has converted many of us to admirers, and he deserves our complete support. The entire administration, from Colin Powell to Donald Rumsfeld to Dick Cheney, inspires more confidence as we embark on this uncertain war than we likely would have had in any Gore administration...
...consumers. Will shoppers, lured hesitatingly back out to stores of late by patriotism and deep discounts, keep coming out in greater numbers as the winter comes? When they refinance their mortgages, will they spend the extra dough? Or will their confidence collapse under mounting personal debt, deflated portfolios, uncertain job prospects, and well, the whole gas-mask-on-the-cover-of-TIME-Magazine thing...
...only they could do the same for the rest of us. We are all in the Third Tower now, the one built instantly from the rubble of the other two. We have been "awakened to danger," the President said, have heard the planes and seen the flames and are uncertain about what to do next. We're told to go about our business; we want to head for the stairs. When millions of us all imagine in the same week what we would say in our last cell-phone call to our family and friends, something in our lives...
...challenge of putting our private lives in some kind of order played out in public as well. Baseball resumed, with players wearing fire fighters' caps. The markets, reopening on Monday, were all woozy and uncertain, as people came to a new understanding of what it means to trade securities. The week's 1,370-point drop was the worst in history, but it told you something when people said it could have been worse. At least the lights stayed on. In downtown restaurants, there were more people at the bar than at the tables...
...could do the same for the rest of us. We are all in the Third Tower now, the one built instantly from the rubble of the other two. We have been "awakened to danger," President George W. Bush said, have heard the planes and seen the flames and are uncertain about what to do next. We're told to go about our business; we want to head for the stairs. When millions of us all imagine in the same week what we would say in our last cell-phone call to our family and friends, something in our lives...