Word: likelihood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over my dead bonds. Call me old fashioned, but after four years of hypergrowth, the likelihood that the S&P can keep up that performance becomes less, not more. You flip a coin four times, and it comes up heads; you cannot conclude that the next flip will yield a head. And even if a fifth head is coming, it doesn't mean there is no risk of a tail--or a tailspin--eventually. I'd be more comfortable if we got to a 10,000 Dow over a longer period of time, during which earnings could catch...
...believe we acted swiftly," insists National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. "I reject the notion there was any dragging of feet." That also sounded a bit odd, coming from an official who was first briefed on the likelihood of espionage at Los Alamos three years ago. Nor was this the first case of Chinese snooping at U.S. weapons labs. During the 1970s and again in the '80s, Taiwanese-born American scientists delivered to China the secrets of, first, the neutron bomb and then laser technology...
Will the dynamic duo of Francis and Morris prove too much for the lowbrow Johnnies to handle? This Sweet 16 tilt promises to be a classic, with as many as three potential lottery picks in the starting lineups. So for one night, forget about your bracket (in all likelihood already lost, along with the five bucks you sank on it) and watch the game for its own sake...
...Will the dynamic duo of Francis and Morris prove too much for the lowbrow Johnnies to handle? This Sweet 16 tilt promises to be a classic, with as many as three potential lottery picks in the starting lineups. So for one night, forget about your bracket (in all likelihood already lost, along with the five bucks you sank on it) and watch the game for its own sake...
...Harvard sees two edges that make testing have some merit," Hughes said. "One is that there is a correlation between very high SAT scores and one's likelihood for getting a magna or summa degree, and the other is that there is some evidence that the SAT is an indicator for how well students will do in their four years here...