Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week ago, the likelihood that the cultural center would have to close down or severely curtail its operations was the cause of great dismay among members of the center's executive board. It now appears, however, that the center is assured it will be able to maintain a meeting place at least for the coming year. Whether the center will have the economic wherewithal to continue its present staff and range of programs remains an open question...
...though we hope this supplement raises important questions in an illuminating way, we have no illusions about the likelihood of our ever being able to answer them. Quick interpretations of 1969 lacked perspective and detachment; interpretations offered now would lack some of the sense of burning immediacy and commitment that gave 1969, like any other time, its weight and its importance...
...state grand jury absolved the Guardsmen in 1970. Even though investigations by the FBI and a presidential commission criticized the Guardsmen's conduct, the case was closed officially in August 1971, when then Attorney General John N. Mitchell said, "There is no likelihood of successful prosecutions of individual Guardsmen." Yet parents, surviving students and their sympathizers refused to give up. They petitioned the Federal Government to reopen the inquiry. Finally, on orders from former Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson, a federal grand jury began hearings in Cleveland last Dec. 18. Over a 39-day period, the 22 jurors heard...
...acquired. St. Clair complained that the committee seemed to be asking for "hundreds of thousands of documents and thousands of hours of recorded conversations covering the widest variety of subjects." He suggested that the committee "determine what is an impeachable offense" before demanding the evidence. Implicit was the likelihood that St. Clair would reject requests that did not fit his own limited interpretation of impeachable acts...
...government's ambitious goals on nationalization are more doubtful. Said a senior Wilson aide: "My guess would be that [the Cabinet] will make haste slowly." The likelihood is that only building land for residential and industrial development and port facilities and trucking will become state owned. On North Sea oil, the Wilson government is expected to seek a 51%-49% partnership with the oil companies in licensing agreements but will stop short of outright nationalization...