Word: unclear
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...majority leaves unclear just how the disclosure that someone made it to the final round in Harvard's presidential search would harm a person's reputation. Most of those on the search committee's medium list already hold prominent positions. By now, all of them should have learned something about facing public scrutiny and dealing with rejection...
Palestinian activists have been eager to help Saddam Hussein link his annexation of Kuwait with the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by escalating the uprising in the occupied territories. Although Palestinians could not have anticipated how deadly the Israeli reaction would be, and it remains unclear just who attacked first, evidence strongly suggests that they were looking for a fight. The Temple Mount Faithful, which never entered the site, offered the perfect pretext to mobilize the masses, while the Jewish holiday provided a headline-grabbing backdrop for a demonstration...
...There would be some tax relief as well. Poor working families with children would benefit from an increase in the "earned income tax credit," though the exact impact of that was unclear. Producers of oil, natural gas and ethanol would get breaks, ostensibly to encourage domestic energy production...
Whether this initial rush of rage fully reflected public opinion was unclear. A TIME/CNN poll taken by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman after Bush's televised speech showed that 77% of Americans thought the deficit a "very serious" problem. When asked in general terms about the austerity program, 54% said they opposed it, compared with 36% in favor. But when asked if passing the package was more important than their objections to some of its parts, respondents favored enactment by a clear majority...
...Catholic character. The decree's most contentious elements are printed in the smallest type: footnotes | cite clauses in the 1983 Code of Canon Law that mandate a local bishop's prior approval for appointments of religion teachers and that empower bishops to remove dissident faculty, although it is unclear how that would be accomplished...