Word: likelihood
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State legislatures have failed to make policy decisions specifying who shall be detained and why. Nor have they specified the necessary degree of likelihood for a person to commit a harm. In other words, it doesn't matter whether a person might commit a harm, is likely to commit a harm, or is more than likely to commit a harm. In practice, all a psychiatrist must say is that a person is "likely to be dangerous to himself or to others" to effect his incarceration...
...electric pump sends the fluid through the kidneys at a natural pulse rate and under normal blood pressures. Once through, the fluid drops from the veins and ureter into a catch basin for recirculation. Along the way, it is reoxygenated and purified, and chilled to reduce still further the likelihood of organ deterioration. When the machine is trundled from the room in which the kidney was removed to the recipient's operating theater, the pump works on a battery without interruption. Dr. Belzer has done four transplants with machine-preserved kidneys, one of which was on the circuit...
...development could have been easily foreseen. That it has not been forestalled is simply one more demonstration of the self-defeating nature of the Administration's policy in Vietnam. Seeking to contain revolution in one nation, the U.S. has been led, economically as well as politically, to increase the likelihood of revolution in many nations...
...Bernard Finch, also serving a life term, gets his first hearing next month, and it is thought likely that he will get the same answer. Next time might be different. Carole can try again in 14 months, said the parole board chairman, and she will "in all likelihood" be released...
...Rules. The vast majority of the post-July draftees will thus be college graduates (v. 4% last year) and a year or two older than men taken today. There is every likelihood that draft demonstrations will increase in size and stridency, when many of those most opposed to the war face imminent induction. There is also some likelihood that Army morale will suffer, as thousands of men who question the war are sent to fight...