Word: likelihood
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...sensitive to the needs of the users of a building, and he constantly sees a building as part of a larger social environment. I think what you will get from Mr. Andrews is the kind of approach that Mr. Yelton describes without the cumbrous committee structure that, in all likelihood, would simply result in a consensus of mediocrity. Claude T. Bissell President University of Toronto
Mindful that after two years of mortar fire at martini time, the audience is perhaps suffering from battle fatigue, the networks have lately broadened their coverage to stories on the economic and political rehabilitation of Viet Nam. Yet there is little likelihood that the TV news shows will curb their compulsion to run those blood-flecked combat scenes. The labor and expense of filming and transportation are too great, and the competition between the networks too brutal to drop them. Walter Cronkite thinks they may bring about a "general revulsion" against war, which may be too much to expect, since...
Stennis said: "We want to return to our primary assignment of recommending a standard of conduct." In fact, there is scant likelihood that either house will pass anything resembling a workable code of ethics this session. Despite all the demands for a tough code, Congress has dawdled too long to agree on anything so sensitive. Thus, for yet another year, it perpetuates a moral vacuum in which standards of conduct are a matter for the independent judgment of the legislator...
More to the point, so far as the government was concerned, was the likelihood that the latest measures would do little to curb smoking. And since tobacco brings in $2.8 billion in annual tax revenues, there were suspicions that the government preferred it that...
...spot, 1) Nixon and Romney would have to gut one another in the primaries, 2) bandwagons for Reagan and Percy would have to be derailed before they got rolling, 3) the moderate Governors would have to coalesce be hind their colleague from New York, and 4) Rocky, in all likelihood, would have to strike a deal with the conservatives in advance by guaranteeing the second spot to Reagan...