Word: unlikelyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Incentive Lack. Among economists, Liberal Robert Nathan, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, and Conservative Paul McCracken, former chief adviser to President Nixon, found themselves unlikely allies in calling the program too small to give the economy the push it needs. Some bankers and businessmen were displeased...
The chances of a swine flu epidemic in 1976-1977 were always extremely small. One recruit in New Jersey died of swine flu, and the disease never reappeared. As the months passed, the chance of an epidemic went from unlikely to nearly impossible. When no one south of the Equator...
Equal access admissions is unlikely to greatly effect fundraising, Peterson predicts. Clifton disagrees. Clifton is concerned with short term cash gifts more than long range investments or gifts for capital construction and his donors are primarily male Harvard graduates--Radcliffe has a separate alumnae fund. As more women enter the...
At various times the Greeks have tried to lift at least part of the burden. In the 1950s the government launched a privately subscribed fund drive to provide dowries for poor girls. Although the latest reform attempt is more sweeping than any other, it is still unlikely to drive dowries...
But although the housing report is unlikely to undergo revision in order to pacify some of its opponents, in the long run, well, this may prove to be the last round of the annual housing debate.