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Word: unlikelyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the Senate committee would ever vote remained in doubt. It had unanimously approved Lance's nomination in January, reaffirmed that decision last July, and would now reverse itself only if a majority could be persuaded that Lance had deceived them in their initial, and admittedly perfunctory, appraisal of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Lance Comes Out Swinging | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

While some members of the committee insisted that their priority task was to determine if Lance had concealed information from them, any such cover-up charge seemed unlikely to stick. The over riding public issue remained whether the Budget Director's banking practices had been as unethical, self-serving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Lance Comes Out Swinging | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Schwartz believes "the precedent to educational reform in the city of Boston is political reform." But even with an unresponsive school committee unlikely to improve in this November's election, gradual change has begun. Garrity's comprehensive court order, which some feel did not go far enough, forced desegregation, affirmative...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: An Abandoned Ship | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

Henry IV Part I is not just wars or Elizabethan society or how wisdom can come from as unlikely a place as a tavern named the Boar's Head or from the mouth of as unlikely a character as the greedy, lusty, lazy, altogether charming Falstaff. It is basically how...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Mistakes to Enjoy | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

One of the council's main goals, according to Keniston, is to "stimulate debate" about public policy. With the across-the-board reforms it advocates-all "consistent with the classic liberal view," Keniston concedes-All Our Children will no doubt spark controversy. While the council's shift of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: All Our Children | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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