Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After returning to Helsinki in a special Russian plane, Premier Kekkonen proudly termed the $350-million treaty the biggest deal ever made by Finland. It would in all likelihood also be the costliest...
...from the Philippines, Korea, India, Pakistan, Siam, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand will discuss economic and cultural cooperation and a vague proposal for a Southeast Asian union. According to Host Romulo, the conference would be "nonCommunist" rather than "anti-Communist," which was another way of saying that in all likelihood it would produce doubletalk instead of concrete action. Romulo himself last week gave a preview of the doubletalk. Said he: "The conference will be unmonolithic in nature, but multilingual, cultural and religious...
...experience. Mental misfits might be expected to have been weeded out in the induction stage (when 38% of medical rejections were for neuropsychiatric reasons). Yet 49% of all disability separations from the Army were neuropsychiatric or for "personality difficulties." The Kalinowsky conclusion: there should be more study of the likelihood that pensions perpetuate the very disabilities for which they are granted; if they were ended, many war neuroses would end with them...
...rising frequency of protest and reply clearly indicated a hotting-up of the cold war, but that did not necessarily indicate the greater likelihood of a hot war. Lesser incidents than these, if anyone wanted war, could obviously provoke...
There is no hope of exterminating them in Hawaii; the flies are too firmly dug in. But the entomologists hope to reduce the fly population and thus reduce likelihood of an invasion of the U.S. mainland. One line of attack is to look for the flies' insect enemies. A Malayan wasp is the best fighter found so far, but it has not yet proved effective in Hawaii...