They cited the doubling of the price of crude oil this summer, uncertainties related to the military buildup in the Persian Gulf and unresolved negotiations to reduce the Federal budget deficit.

First, if the environmental externalities represent the endpoint of our analysis, it is clear that resolving uncertainties related to mortality will be more important than resolving uncertainties related to morbidity.

The 1970 Boundary Treaty between the United States and Mexico settled all then pending boundary disputes and uncertainties related to the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) border.

Assigning probabilities to projections of changes in sea level and temperature, as well as uncertainties related to regional projections of climate change.

The uncertainties related to a war, economists said, must be viewed against the backdrop of an economy already struggling past excesses of the bubble economy of the late 1990's.

Charles R. Shoemate, chairman and chief executive of CPC, said "uncertainties related to the country's change in currency suddenly resurfaced, bringing customers' purchases of many consumer foods products to a virtual halt."

The latest fourth quarter included charges of $15 million related to investments in high technology ventures and $20 million for "uncertainties" related to a contract settlement and other matters in Saudi Arabia.

The second half of the year, he predicted, "could be difficult in view of uncertainties related to the pace of economic recovery in North America and a slowdown in some major markets."

In the first half of the year, real GDP growth stagnated amid considerable uncertainty related to geopolitical tensions and turbulence in oil prices and financial markets.

Over time, these programmes expanded due to good tender opportunities but, at the same time, the uncertainties related to administration and control increased.