Word: assess
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...requesting nominations, the Corporation said,. "The ideal candidate should possess a readiness to entertain new ideas and the ability realistically to assess their value." They expressed interest in candidates 35 to 45 years old, but did not rule out younger nominees. Nelson...
...October 15 Moratorium offers Faculty and students a chance to assess the weight of this feeling, to counter it, and to devise strategies that will not provoke it further-provoke it in other words to the point where renewed bombing of the North and unconditional surrender might become politically attractvie. The idea of the Moratorium admirably recognizes that there are no short-cuts to the work of organizing and education in areas beyond our own enclaves. No faculty vote should be taken on the Resolution at least until we can assimilate the experience of the Moratorium...
...value of the greatest bequest in the Metropolitan's history has been estimated to be $100 million, but it is probably much higher; many of the nearly 3,000 objects are of a kind and quality no longer obtainable on the art market, making it impossible to assess their true value. Besides paintings (such masterpieces as El Greco's St. Jerome as Cardinal and Rembrandt's The Painter, Gérard de Lairesse) and drawings, the collection includes bronzes, tapestries, ceramics, jewelry and furniture from the 12th to the 20th century. Said Museum Director Thomas Hoving...
...since we in America have been ever striving to establish "a more perfect union," since our whole system of government pretends to be based on one great burst of philosophizing in the middle of 1787, and since we have no sense of our past history by which to assess our progress, the Salesman has been most successful when pandering to our dreams and illusions. But, now, he's trying the truth. Superficially, the truth only concerns Vietnam. In actuality it embraces a whole mode of existence...
...letter proposes the following qualifications for the nominees: "The ideal candidate should possess a readiness to entertain new ideas and the ability realistically to assess their value. He should possess a willingness to share in group decisions and the firmness to withstand irresponsible criticism; and he should be deeply devoted to the welfare of this University...