Clearly, the uncertainty does not come just from Olympia & York.

The uncertainty also comes during a period of squeezed earnings and increasing debt for the company.

This uncertainty comes every month, a period of nothing, bleak and foreseeable.

The uncertainties over oil policy come at a time when the company's own corporate culture is in flux.

But then all the old uncertainties rallied and came back to hit him; he was afraid to make a move.

"The uncertainty of the officers - they come to me daily, saying, 'What's going to happen to us?' "

The new uncertainties have come in a country transforming itself remarkably fast.

"The uncertainty comes from the fact that the economic ministers have no control over the political process," he said.

The uncertainty in his mind had come to have a life of its own.

The Robbins woman's uncertainty had come through to him like the crackle of static.