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Word: unlikelyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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More generally, Sadat hoped to convince Carter that the U.S. should produce a plan for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and present it to both Egypt and Israel in private, as the basis for further negotiations, or unveil it publicly. Sadat presumably expected that such American proposals would be close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Looking for a Friend | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Yet the differences between the American and Soviet approaches to providing electrical power in space make an agreement unlikely. The U.S. has not launched a nuclear-powered vehicle since 1965. Instead, it relies on solar cells for electricity for all purposes except shots to the moon or toward other planets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hot Spots in the Land of Sticks | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

What the spy trade calls ELINT (for electronic intelligence) seems limited only by the range of the human imagination; it is a tinkerer's dream so long as intelligence wizards bear in mind the unofficial motto of space age spying: think big and think dirty. But all their gadgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Motto Is: Think Big, Think Dirty | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

But next day Admiral R.H. Falls, chief of the Canadian Defense Staff, confused matters by announcing that the high radiation reading had not been confirmed by other aircraft and might, in fact, have been the result of a malfunction in the measuring equipment. "It is unlikely there is anything on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cosmos 954: An Ugly Death | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

Byker said it is unlikely that the new system will replace the present one because the small number of freshmen who attend the same courses makes it "hard to affiliate (Expos classes) with many courses."

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Program Links Expos to Intro Courses | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

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