Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better." (After a phone call from Ford, Mazewski said he felt "satisfied" by the President's explanation.) Said Wisconsin State Representative Joseph Czerwinski: "It's something out of Alice in Wonderland. Voters are going to question why the fellow sitting in the Oval Office has such an unclear picture of what's going on in Eastern Europe." Casimir Bielen, director of the Ohio division of the Polish American Congress, said: "He has minimized the hopes of people who want freedom." Said Janet...
...analysts investigate all financial aspects of firms or municipalities that issue bonds. The information is then studied by committees of three or four experts, who finally assign the bond's rating. Often the decisions are unanimous, but exactly what criteria are used in making these judgments is sometimes unclear. As a result, some businessmen and politicians, uneasy about how rating decisions are reached, have been calling for greater Government supervision of the rating services...
...Roselli had been running the swank Sans Souci gambling casino there. Roselli told the Senators that he also saw the killing of Castro as a "patriotic" endeavor, something he could do for his country. Both poisoned cigars and poisoned pills were considered by the CIA. For reasons that remain unclear, the mobsters muffed...
...place at any peace conference between the Arabs and Israel. Beyond that, when the shooting finally fades in Lebanon, the Palestinians may be forced as part of the peace to find a new base. Whether or not this would curb the P.L.O.'s troublemaking potential is unclear. But the Palestinians could, as they did after Black September, vent their rage and frustration by reverting to full-scale "revolutionary terrorism," meaning the Entebbe skyjack on a much broader basis...
...Trollope finds surprisingly good) and muggings ("Cut-purses," says Dickens smugly). A most unusual event, they discover, is a relay of 27 "Liberty Torch" runners who will carry water from the Atlantic Ocean across the entire country and dump it into the Pacific. The purpose, like the water, is unclear...