Word: likelihood
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They increase the likelihood that there will be an adequate and available body of knowledge which can be brought to bear upon policy decisions. There is a real prospect that by understanding processes better and by being able to catalogue data and have it on tap, we can make progress toward peace in the next few years that we've never made before...
...riot-handling tactics, on hand. The Justice Department, concerned about the prospsct of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators parading by the White House gate, refused the marchers a permit to march down Pennsylvania Avenue. The department's negotiator, John W. Dean III, explained that there was "a substantial likelihood of serious violence." That refusal may well increase the chance of violent confrontation. If there is rioting in the capital, it will offend many who sympathized with the October demonstrations; a backlash, of course, may be what the Administration wants. Veterans' groups and two newly formed outfits-The National...
There is, of course, little likelihood that Moscow will allow Czechoslovakia to return to the liberalizing route charted by Dubcek before the Russian invasion of 1968. The oppressive days of Novotny, on the other hand, suddenly do not seem quite so distant. A nationalist at heart, Husak may very well try to steer a middle course, but for the time being the ultraconservatives, backed by the country's Soviet occupiers, are dominant. Late last month, they engineered the firing of 29 liberals and moderates from key posts in the government and party. Last week they claimed a host...
...Vernon admits that "if they thought we would produce an attack on the U.S. government, the likelihood of our getting funds would be reduced...
...Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) said that this likelihood plus the cancellation of November and December draft calls, could mean the end of the present selection system...