Word: unclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordinance was passed as a substitute to a proposal sponsored by five of the nine council members. Under the wording of the originally proposed ordinance it was unclear whether the city manager was mandated to erect the displays...
While the extent of North's role in shipping weapons to Iran and diverting the profits to fund the contras remains unclear, the operation reflects the contours of his personality: a love of clandestine operations, a fevered patriotism that leads him to act first and consider consequences later, an enthusiastic determination to put ideology into practice, and a shrewd ability to cover his tracks -- up to a point. Says a White House official: "He was a big believer in plausible deniability...
...Golden Days is that testosterone is the most unstable element in the universe. When men, the sole possessors of penises and nuclear missiles, go wrong, the result is usually bad. See's holocaust is foreshadowed by a catalog of vague fears. The cause of the actual disaster is left unclear, although the reader has been prepared for its reason: the inevitability of male conflict. This is a stimulating and not unreasonable assertion, although it is not convincingly worked out as fiction. Neither is the author's romantic projection that the destruction is a new beginning that will eliminate the traditional...
...setting of the play is also unclear. The mixture of accents and costumes suggestive of various periods leaves some doubt as to whether we're in 18th-century France or 20th-century America...
Lawyers for the two sides said they disagree onthe importance of the papers which contain reviewsof tenure candidates by the Business School'stenure committee. The missing documents includethe mid-1970s and continue at least until theearly 1980s, Lawson said, but it is unclear if allpapers during the period were destroyed...