Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report offered several suggestions for similar situations in the future, but concluded that the Physics Department had acted properly in cancelling the lecture to avoid the likelihood of violence. The complete report will be distributed to students later this week...
Despite the increased likelihood of a bust, the women at the center are planning a full complement of weekend activities. These will include canvassing the Riverside community on Saturday and a "kid's day" on Sunday...
...insists is "most likely better than any of the well-known larger models." It is certainly constructed on different lines. Laffer uses only raw economic data; he ignores the seasonal adjustments that more conventional economists prefer because he thinks they "smear things." He also disregards such matters as the likelihood of a steel strike next summer, the prospective size of the federal deficit and the amount of money saved in banks. "These things all averaged out to zero when we tracked their effect [on the overall economy] in the statistics," he says...
...futurists, together with other leading thinkers, seem to be in general agreement that there is little likelihood of a third World War and that the population explosion (in most of the world, at least) will continue unchecked. "In the indigent two-thirds of the human race," asserts Historian Arnold Toynbee, "family planning will be long delayed. The surplus population will live miserably, without hope, on dole from the productive minority." The futurists also believe that the prosperity of the industrial countries will reach even greater heights, that Japan will be the No. 1 power of the 21st century, and that...
...Vice President Spiro Agnew last week to plead with county commissioners, mayors and other politicians in Atlanta and Kansas City. In Kansas City, Agnew assailed those who fear that local governments cannot be trusted with unrestricted federal funds. Said he: "I don't think there is any more likelihood of a local official being corrupted than there is of a Congressman being corrupted." Nixon is also organizing 20 touring panels-three Republican Congressmen each-to plead for his program. They are being called "Drummers for the New Revolution...