Word: likelihood
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...solve the dilemma, the IWC and the U.S. have adopted a strategy that has the disadvantages of both possibilities and the advantages of neither. By tossing the Eskimos a few crumbs (whales), the IWC insults their dignity and fails to halt the decline of their culture. And given the likelihood that the Eskimos will kill more than 12 whales anyway, the compromise will contribute to the extinction of the bowhead. Though the drawbacks of a total ban on bowhead whaling should not be glossed over, it is the best solution...
There is an increased likelihood that some element of our culture will survive. It also allows people to find a particular niche which is suitable to their cultural and genetic make-up," he said...
...small locker rooms where workers spend little time. The hospital forbade workers from soliciting support for the union in the hospital's cafeteria, where they spend much of their off time, because it claimed pro-union arguments might damage patients' confidence in the hospital and therefore the likelihood of their getting well...
...kidnaping of the since murdered industrial leader, Hanns-Martin Schleyer. Following the Schleyer abduction, terrorism became what Mader describes as a "prime preoccupation" of the bureau as it prepared to cover further developments that were sure to come-and did, with great drama, last week. Says Mader: "Tragically, the likelihood is that we will face more such stories...
...administrators "are disappointed" by the House's action, an FDA aide, who asked not to be identified said yesterday. "Based on animal studies and scientific extrapolation from those studies, we think the likelihood is very high that additional cases of bladder cancer will result from this delay in the ban," he added...