Word: likelihood
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...SOMEWHAT MORE DISTURBING than the likelihood of a nerve gas leak is the bad faith ADL has fostered in its dealings with the community. From the very beginning of the project, ADL neglected to tell the appropriate city officials about its intentions to test nerve gas in the city until after the million dollar Levins Laboratory was completed. Moreover, company spokesmen have consistently been inconsistent in their explanations about how much of the substances are being tested and what the purpose of the testing really is. Finally, ADL even went so far as to inform the city that...
This "heavy-duty brainwashing," as one Administration official called it, showed every sign of working. Majority Leader Jim Wright, a Democrat, expressed a widely held view that the arms-talk link "enhances the likelihood" that Congress will release funds for production of an additional 21 MX missiles, bringing the total to 42. One key backer was Democratic Congressman Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who told several colleagues that he planned to vote in favor of the MX, though he declined to make his position public. Democratic Congressman Norman Sisisky of Virginia, who moved from opposing...
Epps said yesterday that the College has made no initial decision on the relocation plans and declined to comment on the likelihood that it would be approved...
Shainess not only demonstrates how prevalent masochistic tendencies are, she follows up by proving how dangerous can be. Not only does masochism permit women to be manipulated on the job or at home, but they increase the likelihood of serious exploitation, rape and mysogenistic violence. The masochistic woman's need to please, and her need for love regardless of the cost to her self-esteem, dominates her relations with other people. She that is, most women) will not only accept guilt and blame automatically, and accomodate the demands of a man without realizing that these demand may be unreasonable. Virtually...
Although truth usually conquers such error in the realm of serious scholarly debate, there is less likelihood of dispelling the distorted beliefs about history that casual viewers bring away from docudramas. Few books ever become truly "definitive," in the sense that no further books are written to challenge their interpretation. But docudramas have far less often retraveled ground covered by previous examples of the genre. If the only show on a subject is erroneous, corrective information may not sink in when conveyed in the less vivid form of print. The TV networks are plainly within their constitutional rights to make...