Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uneventful nature of the 1984 campaign should have led someone in the election book biz to look beyond the act of campaigning. In all likelihood that task will be left to Kevin Phillips, whose 1982 Post-Conservative America tells us more about the 1984 election than any work written after the game was played. Phillips pegged the rising influence of a New Right that was not interested in the "conservative" status quo but was instead populist-revolutionary. Given 40 years of New Deal politics, the New Right understood that the status quo was no longer sufficient, and Phillips argues that...
...knew about diagnosing infectious blood diseases and meningitis into about 500 "if-then"rules. Rule 27, for example, said that if an organism found in a patient's blood is rod shaped, gram- negative and able to survive in the absence of oxygen, then there is a strong likelihood that the organism is a type of bacteria called Bacteroides. In tests that applied these rules to cases reported in the medical literature, MYCIN was eventually able to diagnose as well as or better than most medical experts...
Though the school's 40 varsity teams--21 men's and 19 women's--have first priority, the facilities are set aside for intramural and recreational use as well. Before you're through, you'll, in all likelihood, have explored some part of Harvard's extensive program. It's the same bet that before you're through, you'll explore at least some area of the program on some level...
...wanted to be a musical-comedy star, and "I plan to be a success," said Vanessa Williams after winning the 1984 Miss America title. But the shock of her nude photos in Penthouse nine months later cost her the title and all likelihood of immediate stardom. In the year since, she has been slowly working her way back, with a forgettable guest shot on a TV detective series last fall and a turn among the many performers at last month's reopening of Harlem's Apollo Theater. This week at Manhattan's South Street Theater, she gets...
Some of the phantoms are widely assumed to have atom bombs already or to be close to that goal. The major example of that ambiguous status known as having "a bomb in the basement" is Israel. The Israelis probably developed an atomic weapon as early as 1968, in all likelihood using reprocessed plutonium from their top-secret, French-built research reactor at Dimona, in the Negev desert. By 1973, Israel was believed to possess at least 13 nuclear weapons...