Word: might
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...Classes. Finding the needed $6.2 billion might well begin with revamping antiquated college management, which Ford Foundation Economist Philip H. Coombs calls "a relatively primitive art, even in institutions that offer a Ph.D. in accounting." Waste of facilities is all too common. Coombs cites one survey of more than 100 schools: "On the basis of a 44-hour week, the institutions used their available classrooms at only 46% of capacity . . . their laboratories at only 38% of capacity." If they go on this way, the schools will need more tuition dollars for expansion, leaving less for salaries...
...Bill Hulet can still lope for 15 miles on a single chase. When he trees a bear after dark, Hulet will take to a tree himself to wait out the night rather than risk a shot that might hit a leaping dog. Hulet has even gone to earth after a bear, pulling his dogs out of the tunnel by their tails until he could get into the hole for the shot at a range...
Keyed Up. In Richmond. B.C., learning that a church was to be built near her mink farm. Mrs. Anna Sierpina hotly objected on the grounds that "unfamiliar noises" like hymn singing might cause her mink to devour their young...
...anybody cared enough to dig a cave 3,000 ft. down and 950 ft. in diameter-an excavating job equal to removing a mass of material equal in volume to the concrete in 42 Grand Coulee dams-it would muffle a 300-kiloton bomb so much that the explosion "might be made to appear seismically like one kiloton. This could not be distinguished by the Geneva seismic network from the thousands of natural earthquakes of this magnitude occurring every year." Similarly muffled, an explosion of 100 kilotons might not be detected...
...Russians complained that the West was making "tendentious" use of "one-sidedly developed material for the purpose of undermining confidence" in the 180-station control system. The U.S.-British position was that no control system at all might be better than one that lulled the West into an illusion of security, behind which its enemies might test on, the explosions muffled in huge caverns in the depths of Siberia, secret and undetectable...