Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gilbert, however, compared the likelihood of the lab's creating a virulent pathogenic bacteria to the probability that a meteorite will devastate Cambridge tomorrow...
...think there's a very good likelihood that we'll have roughly 7% inflation and 7% unemployment in November. If it's better than that, it can't be attributed to any action on the part of Ford...
...Market. The bar's traditional ban on contingent fees for witnesses rests on the fear that they would hype their testimony-or worse-to increase the likelihood of victory and thus of getting paid. But Judge Dooling thinks the danger of distorted testimony is not significantly greater than in cases in which a witness is paid a straight fee for his presumably favorable expertise. As for the remarkable idea of selling shares in the ultimate damages, if any, the judge said that the law did not appear to prevent Person's plaintiffs from selling such shares, so long...
...brainwashed, he says, it was due more to her indulgent parents than to her captors. "Her big problem," he suggests, "is her mommy and daddy," by which he means that her somewhat pampered upbringing kept her from developing a secure self-image. Had she done so, reasons Collins, the likelihood of her adopting S.L.A. values "would be rather remote. It would appear to me next to impossible unless she had wanted to rebel before...
...three years, in the truckers' minimum wage, which currently averages $7.11 nationwide. Chicago Teamster officials, who in the past have forced the national leadership to tear up newly negotiated contracts and bargain for higher terms, have indicated that this year they will follow Fitzsimmons' lead. So the likelihood of a strike after the contract expires on March 31 is slim...