Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...someone's name. And according to the figures presented by Drs. Bennett, Craig and Bloom, I'll pass my 25th birthday with a 50 percent chance of marrying. Divide those 25 years into the remaining 50 percent, and you come up with a decrease of 2 percent in the likelihood that I will get married for every year I grow older...
...would be impossible to say how many people at Harvard or any other college have been exposed to the virus and will contract AIDS in the future. But the likelihood is that the numbers are extraordinarily small," says Hirsch, one of the nation's leading AIDS researchers...
...that has taken a lead in trying to improve the quality of life on the West Bank. In the wake of al Masri's assassination, three other moderate mayoral candidates all announced that they were unavailable because they did not want to "discredit the leadership of the P.L.O." The likelihood is that they simply feared for their lives...
...Palestinian population. He will probably feel a need to seek closer ties with his old adversary Syrian President Hafez Assad. The breakdown in talks may precipitate a new round of violence by Palestinians, who see diplomacy failing once again to resolve their problems. And it vastly increases the likelihood that Peres will be obliged to exchange jobs in the fall with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud. Under the terms of the prevailing coalition agreement, each man is supposed to hold the top position for 25 months. If Hussein's peace initiative had succeeded, Peres might have been...
...report's estimate of the likelihood of failure was about 10 times greater than the estimate officially used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the newspaper said...