Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Antiapartheid activists are convinced that the increase in legal challenges has changed public perceptions and laid a basis for the law commission's extraordinary working paper. The final report will be presented to Parliament early next year and, while there is no likelihood that the government will embrace the paper, the debate will give new legitimacy to civil rights workers, who are too often seen as dangerous leftists in South Africa. State Judge Jack Etheridge of Atlanta, who recently spent seven months in Johannesburg, insists that the best counsel is to "test the government"in court. As the legal activists...
...circumstances, the man can hardly be adjudged "rude" for having courteously refused to execute what amounts to a command, no matter what inflection Taggart's friend may have used in uttering it. No one can say how the man might have reacted to a different approach. But the likelihood of his punching the button could only have increased, had the friend remembered her manners and said, "Could you press 13 for me please?" Marvin Hightower...
...Time stock finished trading Friday at 145 1/4, down 6 1/4 points for the week but at the general level where analysts expect it to settle, at least briefly, if the Time-Warner deal goes through. Warner stock closed at 64 1/2, up 2 3/4, on the increased likelihood that Time would be able to carry out its tender offer. Paramount, which has been rumored to be a possible takeover target itself, closed...
Allen says that if MCAD decides there is a"reasonable likelihood" that the Fly Clubdiscriminates, the case would go in front of apublic hearing. If the commission decided in favorof either the plaintiffs or the defendant at thatpoint, the parties could appeal the case in thecivil courts...
...activists pooh-pooh such fears. "Collectively and individually, talk- show hosts have the fattest egos you'd ever want to bump heads against," says Mark Williams. "So the likelihood of them agreeing on a national agenda is minimal." If they do, however, it might be time for listeners to follow an oft-repeated bit of talk-show advice: Turn your radio down...