Word: likelihood
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...students violate their probations, "it's a likelihood that they would be suspended or expelled," said Michael S. Silvestri, managing editor of The Brown Daily Herald...
...feel for politics and disdained the often subtle maneuvering that makes for a constructive relationship between the White House and the Hill. Baker is the consummate insider. In three terms as a U.S. Senator from 1967 to 1985, he mastered the art of political compromise and cajolery. In all likelihood he will actively seek help outside the White House as he attempts to get the presidency back on track...
...objections. Lawrence Eagleburger, former Under Secretary of State, Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, and John Dellenback, a retired Republican Congressman from Oregon, argued in 13 pages of alternative opinion that "evidence suggests that it is in the context of a growing economy that South Africa has the greatest likelihood of resolving its basic problems...
...likelihood the commission's new data will overshadow its recommendations on improving the NSC operation. The probe back through history has shown that the system has worked pretty well, according to one participant. "There have been screw-ups in every Administration," says this fellow. "In the end it comes down to people. Good people make it work. Get bad people and it fails...
Harvard physicists have not been attempting to propose accelerator sites "because it's assessed that the political likelihood [of success] is small enough that it's better to do research" than to work on proposals, said Paul C. Martin, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences...