Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their infinitely more powerful sponsors in Algiers. The clear implication: Pflimlin was convinced that, no matter how great the provocation, he could not try to bring Algiers to heel by force. And since there was no apparent hope of bringing Algiers to heel any other way, the likelihood was that in the end the Fourth Republic would be obliged to capitulate to the insurgents -and to Charles de Gaulle...
...likelihood of a favorable reception of the proposals by the Social Relations Department has been increased by a few minor changes in the proposals, Robert W. White, Chairman of the Department of Social Relations said yesterday. White explained that his department did not have "very great unanimity" when the proposals were first introduced, but that "a number of objections we raised have been...
Your April 7 report on General Norstad's "reception" by our Senate Foreign Relations Committee points up the tragical likelihood that the U.S. will lose further ground to nations with governments less hamstrung than ours in dealing with national or international problems by day-to-day dependence on unqualified legislators...
...what may have been the understatement of the week, Anderson saw a "likelihood" that 1959 income would fall short of January estimates. Privately, Treasury officials consider a shortfall inevitable, guesstimate it at $4 billion or more. Net result: a 1959 deficit of perhaps $8 billion...
Appointment of a member by each Housemaster, originally advocated in a CRIMSON editorial, was designed by the committee as a potential "item of prestige." The report emphasized the likelihood that students of "popularly unrecognized talent" might thus achieve membership. Appointed members would be ineligible for Council offices...