Word: assess
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Spence has refused to see or speak to Crimsonreporters and has cancelled a pre-scheduledinterview since the tenure cases became a focus ofattention. Other administrators said it ispremature to assess the impact of his plan...
...according to McMillan, they are eventually converted into very good oil. The resins, he believes, are the major source of oil found in the Beaufort Sea and elsewhere in the Arctic. "The more we know of the climate and vegetation," he says, "the better we'll be able to assess the oil and gas potential there...
...Reagan Administration sent Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, to London to assess the European movement on sanctions. Stunned by the adverse reaction to Reagan's speech, which failed to suggest any change in policy toward South Africa, the White House seemed ready to yield to the pressure for sanctions while trying to hold them to a minimum. It hopes to persuade Congress that mild sanctions taken in concert with other nations would be more effective than harsher measures taken unilaterally...
...what good are retrospectives if we fail to assess our failures as well as our successes? Fifty years ago, when Harvard was celebrating its Tercentenary, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 commented that though general gaiety was the order of the moment, we would all do well to remember that as we celebrate the triumph of liberal ideals and the quest for truth, much of the world remains mired in chaos...
...Ignore previous message." Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White held that when examining a motion for summary judgment, judges must determine "whether the evidence presented is such that a reasonable jury might find that actual malice had been shown with convincing clarity." Specifically, said White, judges must assess such evidence in light of the stringent "clear and convincing" standard of the landmark 1964 libel case, New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan. The effect would be to make libel complaints more difficult to justify at the pretrial stage...