Word: assess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously, it was still too early to assess the effect of the President's inevitable isolation. Yet there was evidence that as he came to grips with Berlin, he was recovering the confidence that had been temporarily shattered by the Cuban disaster...
...offer opportunity for learning. But how then could Harvard award a degree? Perhaps by large extension of the tenuous reciprocity by which transfer students are now accredited. Or perhaps we would eventually do away with the degree. But how, if we did that, would the professional and business worlds assess the qualifications of our students? They might develop ways, such as we have too seldom seen, for earnest evaluation of the merits of individuals. But what of the problem of disjointed careers? If we are convinced on the basis of evidence in hand that one should bind oneself...
Kennedy supporters assess Latin American reaction to the tractor deal as largely hostile to Fidel Castro, and believe that the U.S. has scored an unthinking propaganda coup. But whatever his critics or supporters decide, Kennedy was right to accept the offer. By spurning it, he would have been betraying the men the U.S. landed in Cuba, and giving Castro still another opportunity to remind Latin Americans of a fact that already know--that the burden of blame for Cuba today rests on the shoulders of the United States. Our pattern of denial must...
...figures used make it difficult to assess just how much genuine unemployment exists. U.S. Labor Department statistics-which now place unemployment at 6.8% of the labor force-include among the jobless many people (such as teen-agers looking for part-time work and housewives seeking a job for the first time) who, in other countries, would not be listed as unemployed. When Sweden experimentally tried using U.S. measuring standards, the Swedish "unemployment" rate immediately quadrupled though the actual employment situation had not changed at all. Still, the very completeness of the U.S. figures makes them a valuable barometer for judging...
Reviewers hastened to assess the new Bible's contributions to religion and literature. Even on the 78th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, the London Daily Worker gave the new Bible serious attention-and found it wanting. "The beauty and power, the earthy 17th century prose, have been replaced by merely competent writing which ranges in character from that of a report in the Times to that of advertising copy." That Which Slept. Presumably more interested than the Daily Worker in a clear, understandable Bible, scholars and clerics in the U.S. and Britain generally sounded more favorable...