Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early as 1919, when Jews were 8% of the population, a presidential commission visiting the region found that "the Zionists look forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine . . ." and also foresaw the likelihood of armed aggression in the accomplishment of the Zionist program. There was never really any doubt...
...become scratched or to pop out unexpectedly than the hard kind. There are some 90 million near-and far-sighted Americans, but only 10 million of them wear contact lenses. Millions more have tried contacts, but given them up because of eye irritation. Bausch & Lomb is betting on the likelihood that soft contact lenses, because they are usually non-irritating, will win a large share of the $400-million-a-year ophthalmic market...
...would go to the police commissioner. The second would go from the commissioner to his legal counsel. The counsel would quickly burrow into lawbooks to see if there might not be some handy old statutes tucked away. Meanwhile the commissioner would send the word down: "Smother them." In all likelihood, the department would put so many cops on the street in and around the Russians that the J.D.L. would quickly become the victims of harassment-legal, on the whole-instead of the perpetrators. The cops, too, would act as witnesses, which would get around the problem of diplomatic reluctance...
...main reason for ruling out public hearings is the likelihood of disruption, Anderson said last night. He distinguished between "open hearings" and "public hearings," saying that "what we have now are open hearings...
...victory lifted Harvard into a third-place tie with Yale; which lost Saturday to powerful Cornell. In all likelihood, these two teams will still be tied for third when they face each other May 15 in Cambridge...