Word: assess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is anything that moves me...it is that," he says. "One of the main functions of education is to find the answer to learn, to worry about, criticize and assess certain things, and not assume that we know the answer...
...have to be sacrificed. Neither the Administration nor Congress has suggested what to do. In the meantime, Cheney is proceeding with his own priorities. Because of his belief that there has been only a temporary thaw in relations with the Soviet Union, the Pentagon has barely even begun to assess the U.S.'s real defense needs should the change turn out to be permanent...
...Mafia. Prosecutors were troubled that mobsters could keep running their businesses during criminal trials and even after convictions. Congress responded by passing powerful legislation permitting the seizure of "enterprises" that derive money from illegal activities. They also provided the extraordinary remedy of triple damages--meaning that courts could assess damages at three times the amount of injury actually suffered...
Sheldon G. Tandler, controller of Harvard Real Estate--which manages the University's non-academic holdings--said he could not accurately assess the impact of the fiscal 1990 increase on the University because he has not yet received this year's tax figures...
Linden has explored the complex and sometimes tragic relationships between humans and nature in several books, including Silent Partners, which considers the implications of language experiments with apes. For this week's article Linden spent ten days crisscrossing the region by air, water and land to assess the Amazon's chances for survival. Says Linden: "The question is whether the concern everyone now has about the environment will translate into meaningful action...