Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he met with faculty leaders from the Medical School in order to determine the likelihood of abuses of the new program, such sa the possibility of lucrative research becoming a tenure issue...
...says David Sugarman, a professor of psychology at Rhode Island College. Researchers have also discovered that the longer couples stay together, the more probable it is that violence will surface. Observes Daniel O'Leary, a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: "The likelihood of aggression increases as the intensity of the romance gets stronger. It seems to peak in the year prior to marriage, then gradually decrease across time...
...absence of a strong class of businessmen or a highly organized church -- both of which existed in the Philippines when Ferdinand Marcos was deposed -- the party and the 163,000-troop Burmese army it controls have a virtual monopoly on political power. The likelihood is that any new leadership will be drawn from the military. If the army engineers a coup, chances are that the move will be led by younger officers, men in their late 40s who are unlikely to take a favorable view of the party's policies. Explains Kiryu: "Those in their 60s and older, who experienced...
INEXPERIENCE in the young is forgiven in much the same way that past transgressions are often overlooked in the old. In a long life, the likelihood of making a misstatement, having a bad idea or suffering a lapse of judgement is high. If blemishes are discovered, we check to see if they have been corrected and, so long as there is a long list of counter-balancing accomplishments, we forgive...
...heavens beyond the solar system in search of other planets. If they exist -- and evidence is rapidly accumulating that they do -- the possibility greatly increases that some of the planets may be similar to the earth. U.S. and Canadian astronomers last week reported tantalizing discoveries that strengthened that likelihood...