Word: assess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fundamental shortcomings: the lack of institutional means to ensure the orderly transfer of power. Given Chernenko's age and evident frailty, the Soviet Union may in any event soon be undergoing its third leadership succession since 1982. Indeed, Soviet analysts around the world are busy trying to assess the likely makeup of the next regime...
While at the Kennedy School, Godwin plans to develop strategies to launch a broader-based more cohesive Rainbow Coalition campaign in the future. "I hope to use this fellowship to assess the campaign and prepare a report for Jesse and his inner circle--this is what we did, this is what we did wrong or right, this is what we do from here," proclaims the Jackson campaign's head in four states...
...economy, the best Christmas gift would be the promise of further solid growth next year. And that is precisely what TIME'S Board of Economists offered last week when it met to assess the business outlook for 1985. In a spirited session that also examined the impact of sweeping tax reform and budget-cut plans, board members unanimously predicted that the economy will retain its forward momentum and avoid a recession in the year ahead. Said Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford: "There is no credible evidence that...
...crucial uncertainty for Union Carbide is whether courts will conclude that it was negligent and therefore assess punitive as well as compensatory damages. In general, insurance policies do not cover punitive damages. Standard & Poor's estimated that Union Carbide could absorb up to $300 million in accident-related liability costs. Nonetheless, the financial-rating agency put Union Carbide's bonds on a "credit watch" to warn investors about potential risks...
...power of scientific advances that give us the ability to tinker with DNA, to replace a defective heart, disrupts the ethical standards we use to judge those powers. Secondly, the sheer speed at which science forces issues upon us outstrips ethical standards. Rapid technological change leaves little time to assess consequences; we cannot know what is at stake, because science carves out new territory faster than we can discover the hidden problems. Consequently, the issues force the public to take extreme sides, to condemn or condone. In the political arena, the policy makers, also at a loss, tend either...