Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preparatory school graduates and sons of alumni had the greatest likelihood of going on probation for academic reasons, the Dean's report continued. Four per cent of the prep school graduates had their connection severed, double the figure for public school students. While alumni sons comprise only 20 percent of the class of '62, over 34 per cent of those withdrawing were from Harvard families...
Mitchell can draw comfort from the likelihood that he would have won his bet had there been no steel strike. Of course, Stevenson would probably have won the last election had there been no Eisenhower...
...limit sign along a highway in the free world, wrote Dibelius, he would not hesitate to slow down. But not in East Germany. First, because the speed limit would not be applied equally to ordinary citizens and Communist functionaries and because the slowdown would be made necessary, in all likelihood, by some immoral purpose, such as starving out West Berlin. And second, "because I know that these ordinances are those of . . .a regime which I, in the name of God and Our Lord Jesus Christ, would like to see disappear...
Alexander believes there may be more jiggling of rates when holiday financing steps up and the steel strike ends. But, he says hopefully, "there is a good likelihood that the worst pressure on rates is past. A sustained strong upward force is unlikely." He does not think that tight money will harm the boom: "The supply of money and credit is not exhausted. The banking system is heavily loaned, but not loaned up." He is not concerned about high money rates, points out that for long periods short-term rates wrere actually above long-term yields. Says...
Despite the likelihood of police action, Robinson intends to continue distribution of his covers to colleges in the Boston area. The issue is still available on the news stands around Harvard Square...