Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infiltrating last April's Earth Day rallies with undercover agents. Attorney General John Mitchell replied: "The FBI has no interest in an Earth Day meeting as such, but it does have a very legitimate interest in the activities of persons whose known records reveal a likelihood of violence, incitement to riot or other criminal behavior." He added pointedly: "Any suggestion that the FBI is conducting surveillance of the political activity of United States Senators is just as false as the charge that the FBI is tapping the telephones of members of Congress...
...overall industrial production was disappointing. After increasing early in the quarter, factory output fell in February and rose only .2% in March, to 165.2% of the 1957-59 base. Moreover, some of the quarter's steel production was merely the result of hedge buying by customers against the likelihood of a strike in August. General Motors, for example, is building a 90-day steel supply, compared with its normal 30-day stockpile. Steel customers are thus creating a built-in slack for the industry later in the year, whether or not it is actually hit by a walkout...
...yield to coercion would in the long run destroy the spirit of the Resolution. In the face of personal harassment or the strong likelihood of serious violations, however, a prudent man may chose to avoid confrontation without forfeiting his opportunities for redress. While it may be generally preferable to put the issue to the test so that there can be a resolution of the ambiguities involved, one cannot insist upon this as a threshold for disciplinary action if a case can be made on its merits that a violation has occurred...
Speculation on the likelihood of a bust has been rampant at the Mall, although the government has given assurances a bust will not occur tonight. However, many observers have indicated that if the government is to establish a precendent to keep this Saturday's and later demonstrations out of the parks, the vets will have to be removed...
Population pressures increase the likelihood of widespread government drives, or even coercion, to limit births. Couples who are warned by genetic counseling that they risk producing deformed offspring would face far greater pressure than they do now to avoid having children; those with defective genes could become, in effect, second-class citizens, a caste of genetic lepers...