Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That is certainly always a likelihood. It would be a mistake to assume that the Geneva conference is going to be easy or brief. But it will be the first opportunity, if it materializes, for the Arab leaders and the Israeli leaders to meet together hi extensive negotiations to understand one another's approach, positions, attitudes, and to marshal the opinion of the world on the points in dispute...
...celebrated "pause"-are based partly on expectations that neither home building nor spending by consumers or government will continue strong enough to keep business moving smartly. Other worries: the possibility of rising interest rates, the inflationary impact of the Administration's proposed energy program and the likelihood of a coal strike when miners' contracts expire in December...
...husbands would have expected. Trustman says he "never met one woman here who had any interest in having a career. Harvard was just an esoteric hobby for them. They got jobs if they did not get married right away and a job was 'good' or 'bad' depending on the likelihood of meeting a marriageable man there...
...more significant objection, and one that Roazen points out, lies in the likelihood that not everyone dwells as much as Erikson on the problem of existential definition. It seems more reasonable that we all share the same group of basic pre-occupations--sexuality, existential angst, class consciousness and false consciousness--but in different proportions for different people. Yet Erikson is one step ahead of this objection; as Roazen notes, he is quick to admit that his insights are not comprehensive explanations of personality. Erikson once suggested that modern thinkers should incorporate Freud as a theorist of sex, and Marx...
...conference last week promptly declared that the archbishop had been murdered, while the World Council of Churches in Geneva demanded an international inquiry into "a six-year reign of terror in Uganda." In Amin's Uganda, there was little likelihood of that...