Word: likelihood
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With a total of 20 Olympic track and field participants, five of them gold medal winners, and sundry other of the nation's top stars gathered in Boston, there is little likelihood of the Crimson entries picking up any individual medals...
...superior efficiency, Slichter claims, keeps the foreign producer from entering the American market. Even if he can succeed in selling in this country there is likelihood that the duty on his commodity will be raised in consequence...
...present, there seems little likelihood that the idea will become reality, but nevertheless the feeling exists that centralized labor is a fundamental necessity, and this is an unhealthy attitude. For one thing, a merger of the C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. will not contribute anything to increasing the membership of American labor unions. Labor has succeeded in organizing only 30 percent of the workers, and even this figure may be an exaggeration; contrast this to England where labor accounts for 70 percent of the working population and it becomes obvious that unions here have much...
...well-organized athletic program where coaching and medical supervision work hand in hand," he observes, "there is little likelihood that the athletic will leave college with some disabling permanent scar, trick, knee, or leg paralysis, as a result of sport played for fun. On the other hand, there are graduates who have lost the spleen or one kidney or one eye because of contact sports...
French said: "My lawyer informed me that there is no precedent for a suspended sentence. The chances of one are nil... there is no parole of any sentence lighter than one year and this will not in all likelihood be light...