Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee member would comment on the likelihood of altering the present schedule but one, Martin A. Shefter, associate professor of Government, said that if a change were approved "it would probably be a calendar adjustment like last year...
...Anderson and Cady are brought to trial, a likelihood at this point, conviction is hardly certain. Conspiracy charges are difficult to prove even in obvious cases. Still, Star executives are angry at what they view as harassment. They are also disappointed by the fact that their series has produced such meager results so far. Mayor Richard G. Lugar has brought in a new police chief and formed a citizens' committee to study the department. He has accepted many of the committee's recommendations for reform, such as establishing incompetence as a ground for dismissal. The FBI is looking...
...testimony indicates that the Agency role in 1970 was viewed as that of the "spoiler," involving general attempts to politically destabilize the country and discredit Allende to improve the likelihood that an opposition candidate would...
...summon home from Geneva Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, 57, Haile Selassie's son, and anoint him as Ethiopia's King (significantly, not Emperor). Wossen, who is partially paralyzed from a stroke that he suffered two years ago, would be nothing more than a figurehead, and the likelihood is that the country will eventually be proclaimed a republic. Meanwhile, Lieut. General Aman Michael Andom, 50, a popular officer who has been chief of staff of the armed forces, has been named temporary head of the government...
...selling dreams of kingdoms," says Real Estate Salesman Bob Douglas, 34, of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, who claims to have sold millions of dollars worth of rocky isles. Nor is there any likelihood of an immediate island shortage. There are an estimated 1 million outcroppings off North American shores alone, plus many more thousands of fresh-water isles from the lower St. Lawrence River to the westerly straits of Lake Huron...