Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given that likelihood, what sort of woman would stand the best chance of getting nominated? The professional requirements would probably be abnormally rigorous for the first woman hopeful, in order to overcome deep laminations of prejudice by female as well as male voters. Doubtless the ideal woman candidate would have held a number of previous public offices, so that her identity in jobs of responsibility and power would be fixed in the public mind. As with Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir, her persona would be politically rather than sexually defined...
...knifepoint to ride the elevator to the top floor, led her to the roof, placed her personal property on a window ledge, and forced her to undress. According to Judge Dembitz, the three cases corroborated one another: "The method of operation was sufficiently similar and distinctive to establish a likelihood that the same individual committed the acts against the three girls." With that, plus the girls' identification of the boy, Judge Dembitz found him guilty and he was placed in a state training school...
...there are 1.4 million snowmobiles abroad in the land, and the number is growing fast. Nature lovers, insisting that the little vehicles cause damage to the environment and shatter the tranquillity of wilderness regions, have begun pressing for anti-snowmobile legislation. But prospects for effective regulation are poor; the likelihood of an outright ban is nil. Now, however, a study by a Michigan State University professor suggests a more subtle way to deal with the proliferation of the abominable snowmobile (as its foes call it). If it is made thoroughly safe to operate, devotees will get bored and look...
Sizer's reputation as an innovator will be tested at Andover, which, like the other traditional New England boarding schools, is suffering from declining applications and dwindling financial resources. "With the likelihood of increased state funding, high schools will become more and more alike," Sizer said yesterday. "That puts responsibility on private schools to come up with new alternatives...
...could live an entire lifetime in, say, Tel-Aviv or Haifa, and never be set upon by hostile Arabs, never hear a shot, not the least gunfire, and one's closest brush with death would in all likelihood be on the roads, where cars are driven with the same reckless excitability that seems to grace the entire population. It is indeed true that, as the Israelis never tire of saying, "You are a great deal safer anywhere in Israel than on the streets of New York." But this confidence in day-to-day security, this state of ostensible normalcy, does...