Word: likelihood
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...analysts also tend to minimize the likelihood of a North Korean military adventure. President Kim's economic policy has suffered from acute shortages of foreign currency. Furthermore, China, which would have to aid Kim in any invasion of the South, clearly does not want a costly war. It would not only tax the Chinese economy but would give the hated Soviets a chance to increase their influence in East Asia...
...likelihood of people talking about the test during the break forced us to invalidate it," Wiltsey said...
Accounts of just how much money Jackie would get ranged wildly, from a high of $200 million or more (if a traditional Greek law entitling widows to 25% of an estate is found to apply) to a low of $2 million. The issue is complicated by the likelihood that the canny Onassis set up a maze of tax-resistant trusts. The best guess seems to be that Jackie will end up with about $100 million, and her children, John and Caroline Kennedy, with $15 million each. She is also expected to get the prime pickings...
...knows why one person takes out his frustrations on children and another does not. But to some extent violence runs in families. As Louis Jolyon West, chairman of U.C.L.A.'s psychiatry department, puts it, "There is a remarkable likelihood that parents who batter have been battered themselves as children." New York City's Fontana sees child abuse not only as a self-perpetuating problem but as a training ground for general violence as well. "The eleven, twelve-and 13-year-old murderers we see today," he says, "come from violent homes where they were battered...
ENVIRONMENT. Of the 19,000 wells that have been drilled to date in U.S. waters, only four have caused major oil spills. But as the industry explores in rougher, deeper waters, the likelihood of more spills increases-with possibly disastrous effects on such recreational areas as the beaches of Long Island and Southern California. For this reason, several officials requested new federal insurance coverage against oil spills. Then there are disruptions onshore, which New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne described as the "helter-skelter development" of pipelines, refineries and storage tanks. Interior's impact statement, critics charge, deals with such...