Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of $3 million a day provide the bulwark of the Arab peace-keeping force inside Lebanon. In a land where there are more guns than people, violence and bloodshed are always near, ambush and assassination everyday occurrences. But without the Syrian presence the violence would, in all likelihood, be even more brutally unconfined...
...difficult thing to contemplate the likelihood that one spent five years be ing tortured for nothing. As they cluster together around the Marriott's eight bars and omelet-shaped pool, the P.O.W.s seem compelled to approve of the life they found at home. Nearly all of them are confused, embarrassed or annoyed by their strange hero status. Says John McCain: "It doesn't take a helluva lot of talent to get shot down." Virginia Guttersen ex plains: "To a military man, the P.O.W. is a loser, the guy who didn't complete his mission. The Government made...
...Wyatt says. Michael Brewer, director of government relations, expects that his office will continue to field the complaints and community concerns, as it has done over the years. Brewer handled the oversight at 58 Garfield St., and says that similar incidents have occurred in the past, and in all likelihood will occur on occasion again in the future...
...likelihood that Harvard will lose half its faculty to the diversity of southern California," he added...
...necessary to furnish the far-ranging predators with the ground squirrels, rabbits and other small animals necessary to their survival-was not. Now, expanded farming has reduced the amount of small game in the lands on either side of the canyon rim. Private holdings along the river increase the likelihood of speculation and development. Together, these growing threats could push the birds to the brink of extinction. "This is the last remaining place where these species can be maintained so they won't disappear," says Andrus. "Once the animals go, the birds...