"You're making an adventure game from probably the least likely story that could be an adventure game, " Mr. Valentine said.
Market-fixing, fraud, and conspiracy on a grand scale, and frankly a more likely story, given that key evidence in the MW report has already been refuted.
Less certain is the outlook for long-term interest rates, most likely a story of rising yields.
The first is that we specifically do not look for analysis whose results might support our story, but the exact opposite: we look for analysis whose results are most likely to refute our story and thereby create conflict.
The story is likely to be more grim for Japanese insurers, the Insurance Industry Institute figures.
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So, really, he's trying to spin it away from an examination of who the likely source of this story is.
However the witnesses it will call are likely to tell a story of a family whose lives were anything but clear and simple.
What we have seen over the past 12 months in the U.S. economy is likely to be the story of the next 12 months.
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The whisky is thought to be not fit for consumption, however, Scotch Whisky Auctions' director Bill Mackintosh said their story was likely to attract bids.
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And because the forces of intellectual fashion behind that public-health vision of social policy are inexorable, this story is likely to offer a somewhat sad ending: ever-higher sin taxes on an ever-greater range of recreational foods.
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They can't get enough rebounds, can't get Dwyane Wade on track, can't get consistency out of Chris Bosh and will likely see all those story lines either grow exponentially or basically disappear Thursday night, when they host to the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 of a super-competitive Eastern Conference finals that's now knotted at two games apiece.
The problem with attempting to give a balanced story is that only, and I mean ONLY, the negative statements are likely to make it into the final story.
Part of the story is also likely to be the arrival of newcomers from overseas.
If the value of work in progress (or stocks, components) has risen strongly then the first story is more likely to be true.
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If not, it is more likely to become a horror story.
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If a friend gets mugged in a foreign country, that story is more likely to affect how safe you feel in that country than abstract crime statistics.
And more troubling is the suggestion that the whole arrangement be kept secret from the public (though the Boston Globe story today is likely to derail that plan).
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Political science professor Doug Muzzio of Baruch College in New York City said it's important to discuss race in a story that will likely dominate the news for months.
It's likely that part of the story is ability: not everyone is up to the task of dealing with the complexities of a bigger conference room filled with disparate participants.
This is likely to be the last big story for Newsweek which, after 79 years, will cease print publication with the Dec. 31 issue.
If you've been following mainstream news today, then it's likely you've seen the story doing the rounds on new Apple tablet rumors, spurred by a note sent to clients from Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner.
However it gets there, that piece of jewelry adorning a world-class model on a fashion runway, being shown at a world-renowned fashion house, or appearing behind the window at your local jeweler, has a history and a story that will most likely never be known.
And once the story got out, he likely lost the respect of his team.
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Mr Clegg has been on holiday on Spain since the story surfaced, but is likely to give his response on Sunday.
The competition between these proposed developments to attract tenants would likely not have been much of a story except for one fact the dividing line between the City of Phoenix and the City of Scottsdale ran right between the two locations.
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However, if the iPad Mini did exist, it seems likely that the site would have its own story anyway.
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