Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admission of students from Alameda, Calif. and all of New Jersey. "Next year, we'll try a slightly different system," F. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, announces; "We shall assign freshmen according to their ability to play polo, their lack of resemblance to women, and their likelihood to become rich alumni...
Surprisingly, drugola did not seem to be the central problem. Vestiges of the drug-oriented youth culture of the late '60s linger on in the rock world. But so far there is little likelihood of a scandal approaching the scope of the payola debacle of the '50s. A federal grand jury in Newark is investigating the matter, but is reported to be months away from any conclusions or possible indictments...
...reached, and will bear the reassuring face of Abraham Lincoln on one side and the Lincoln Memorial on the other. The metal needed to produce them will cost the Government 90% less than it now spends on copper. Thus, not only will pennies cost less to produce, but the likelihood of their again reaching the melting point within the next several years will be sharply reduced. To critics who like the reassuring heft of copper, the Bureau of the Mint points out a shade defensively that aluminum is an acceptable coinage metal in 36 countries of the world. What...
Sadly, there is very little likelihood that Allah will be any more merciful next year than he has been throughout 1973. Mohammed Ibrahim may be alive, but starvation and disease on the three-month trek from drought-ravaged Mali to Niger cost him all his cattle and camels and a third of his family. Now he is destitute, living in a stark hut made oi hides The Niger Red Cross manages to provide him with 150 grams of food per day, which, according to U.N. officials, can only sustain life for a short time...
...geological formation known as the Witwatersrand gold field in South Africa. The possibility of a hit also fascinated Jules Verne. In his 1877 story Hector Servadac, the earth is smashed to bits by a comet, and the protagonists drift off into space on one of the fragments. Statistically, the likelihood of a comet colliding with the earth is extremely remote; scientists calculate that such a collision will occur no more than once every 200 million years...