Word: likelihood
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Clement A. Riley, currently the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, also seeks the Democratic nomination, but not with much likelihood of victory. There has been some speculation that former Boston Mayor John Hynes, long a popular figure in Massachusetts politics, would eventually enter the race, and if he does so he would be a formidable candidate...
...fire effects, and we doubt whether anyone can reach reliable conclusions on this question. Within the Committee, there was a wide spectrum of opinion as to the probability that the third contingency would actually obtain in the event of war. Nevertheless, the Committee majority was agreed that the likelihood is sufficient to justify the University in taking the modest steps recommended to provide fallout shelters in its buildings...
...though even a temporary alleviation of unemployment in the depressed areas is desirable, the proposed $600 million outlay can scarcely be expected to act as an effective stimulus to the total national economy. At the same time, if it passes Congress, the new program will add to the growing likelihood of yet another federal budget deficit in fiscal 1963-a circumstance unlikely to enhance confidence in the U.S. economy either at home or abroad...
Even with inspection, disarmament would be risky. According to President Kennedy's scientific adviser, Jerome B. Wiesner, the best that can be achieved is a combination of inspection techniques that would produce an "adequate likelihood" of detecting violations. For example, even if ironclad controls were accepted by each nation - inspection of such things as plant output records, manpower, ore supply and electricity consumption - could anyone be sure a would-be cheater had not hidden a stockpile of undeclared H-bombs? Even with all this data, experts estimate they might miscalculate a nation's supply to the extent...
...discussion. A four-man commission is sounding out rank-and-file reaction to Gottwald's removal. The backing and filling points up one fact: the Czechs are a careful, canny and slow-moving people. Unlike neighboring Hungary, Poland or East Germany, Czechoslovakia has few outspoken malcontents and no likelihood of an uprising. The party, in return, is more lenient; the Czechs are allowed a relative cultural freedom. Western books sell briskly; J. D. Salinger is currently a favorite. Western films can be seen without stigma. In Prague, Designer Zdenka Bauer. 27, showed a collection of attractive dresses, suits...