Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vacuum has been filled by Attorney General Edwin Meese, whose advice has nearly always led to disaster. Even David Broder, the Washington Post's normally temperate columnist, last week joined the growing cry for Meese's firing. The likelihood that Reagan will heed that recommendation is virtually nil; Meese is the last of his California cronies left in the Administration. Still, the two Bakers, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary- designate Frank Carlucci are all people of sound judgment to whom the President should listen...
...illuminating conversation that I'd had with a nude Leopold Stokowski, just last week, at a little gala thrown by an equally pre-lapsarian Hank Kissinger in honor of my latest opus, The Oracle Speaks (Knopf, $27.95, although if you have to ask the price you will in all likelihood neither understand nor be able to afford the book...
...attention of all who are concerned with academic discourse and general commerce in ideas. In recent years, federal information policies and practices have tended to limit the availability of certain categories of information to scholars and other members of the public, occasionally restraining private communication and enhancing the likelihood that government officials will exercise unwarranted influence over the content of published information...
...There's a reasonable likelihood we could do a deal," he said...
There is no guarantee, even no likelihood, of success. Even if they do find a weakness, the chances of exploiting it sucessfully are quite small. The chances of something like this clicking three weeks in a row are nearly...