Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administrators say they hope that withholding lottery numbers will shorten the lottery process and encourage students to list their house choice according to true preference rather than according to the likelihood of availability...
What particularly alarms the Wall Streeters is the likelihood that the Fed will unleash the banks even more. Says Edward O'Brien, president of the Securities Industry Association: "It represents piecemeal dismantling of the appropriate separation that exists in the financial-services industry -- a system that has worked exceedingly well for more than 50 years." Within a year, the Fed plans to consider whether to allow banks to venture deeper into Wall Street's business by selling stocks as well as bonds. The securities industry may try to block the Fed in court, although previous challenges have failed...
...Reagan had just taken office. He has been the president of my adolescence all the way to my first tenuous steps into adulthood. As the child of liberal parents, I had soberly assessed the possiblities of a religious-right wing autocracy and found it likely, not to mention the likelihood of my life ending in a ditch in Central America...
Toxic waste and radioactive contamination could lead to shortages of safe drinking water, the sine qua non of human existence. And in a world that could house between 8 billion and 14 billion people by the mid-21st century, there is a strong likelihood of mass starvation. It is even possible to envision the world so wryly and chillingly prophesied by the typewriting cockroach in Donald Marquis' archy and mehitabel: "man is making deserts of the earth/ it wont be long now/ before man will have it used up/ so that nothing but ants/ and centipedes and scorpions/ can find...
...nations of the world take immediate action, the destruction of the global environment can be slowed substantially. But some irreversible damage is inevitable. Even if fossil-fuel emissions are cut drastically, the overall level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will still increase -- along with the likelihood of some global warming. Even if toxic dumping is banned outright and that ban is strictly enforced, some lakes and aquifers will be tainted by poisons that have already been released. Even if global population growth could somehow be cut in half, there would still be more than 45 million new mouths...