Word: unlikelihood
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...statistical significance seems questionable) on the spread of AIDS among sexually active women. Lichtman has missed a crucial point: the fact that the occurance of an incident may be unlikely does not mean that one shouldn't be concerned with or take steps to prevent it. Should the statistical unlikelihood of nuclear war in the next ten years prevent us from concerning ourselves with disarmament, or should the statistically unlikelihood of contracting polio prevent us from being vaccinated? No doubt, the installation of condom dispensers will have almost no effect on the majority of Harvard students, but the true bottom...
...case of the bombing of the disco in Berlin, the counter-evidence is particularly strong: e.g. the unlikelihood of Qaddafi ordering a terrorist act against a nightclub frequented by Muslims and black U.S. GIs, Libya's explicit denial of compliance in the action and condemnation of it, and the fact that a German neo-Nazi organization claimed responsibility shortly afterwards...
...members of its parent organization, the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations. Hyland, who played a key role in negotiating SALT I, was once known as a hardliner, but in recent years has become more confident about the potential for balanced arms control agreements, and the unlikelihood of nuclear war. Said one former colleague: "He is no ideologue." A State Department analyst agreed: "You will not find him frozen to a single line...
...unlikelihood of Kremlin powers reversing their decision to place the prominent physicist and dissident in internal exile didn't deter the Physics Department from inviting Sakharov to spend a semester here as a Loeb Lecturer...
...struggles to get to sleep weren't much assisted by his habit of wearing his crown in bed." He claims to have seen Joan of Arc disguised as a deer. He talks of a blustering poet, "all red and arrogant and full of spondees." He spins a long unlikelihood to illustrate a proverb made up on the spot: "The Devil is most likely to strike when you have your trousers down." Oops! Bad taste? Upon my soul...