Word: assess
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...then, do scientists trust them? How do they assess their accuracy? "You compare them with reality," explains Princeton Climatologist Syukuro Manabe. "How well do they reproduce the movement of the jet stream, the geographical and seasonal distribution of rainfall and temperature? You can also reproduce climate changes from the past. Eighteen thousand years ago, there was a massive continental ice sheet. Given the conditions that we know existed, can we reproduce accurately the distribution of sea-surface temperatures then? The answer is, We can do this very well. It gives you some confidence." Large-scale phenomena can be modeled more...
Without a bill of rights, however, judges would have no choice but to assess the rights of the people against the malleable concepts set forth in the Constitution's preamble--to establish justice and to secure liberty. They would almost have to be activists, basing their decisions on continually evolving standards of justice...
...will sponsor several additional rush events in the spring to garner more pledges from the freshman class and to assess the long-term demographic trends facing the fraternities, Parfomak said...
...execution, and involving 70 doctors, nurses and technicians. The procedure required draining all the blood from the boys' bodies and completely stopping their heartbeat. At week's end both were in critical but stable condition. Until the babies are roused from drug-induced comas, doctors cannot fully assess their health. "Success in this operation is not just separating the twins," says Dr. Mark Rogers, who coordinated the effort. "Success is producing two normal children...
...Asked to assess his past, du Pont is helpless. There are no traumatic childhood memories, few personal crises in his charmed adult life. When pressed for a formative experience, du Pont harks back to his three years in the late 1950s as a Navy maintenance officer at the Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine. His duties included keeping the runways free of snow, and he obligingly strains to find some germ of leadership in those days...