Word: assess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidence. I'll tell you my strongest memory, though. One morning at Market Hall, where the convention had its gift bazaar, a man mistook a glass wall for an open door and crashed straight into it. The window exploded all over him. I held his face to assess the damage, but he got off lucky: shaken up, with a scratch on his nose. He was sure he had been heading for a door because the space looked so clear. -By Roger Rosenblatt
When the policeman's widow, a librarian named Marcella (Helen Mirren), is pointed out to Cal, he begins slyly, shyly to stalk her. Whether he seeks love or absolution-or merely to assess the damage done another victim of the act he abetted-he could not say. And the movie is resolute in its refusal to speak for him or, indeed, for anyone caught in the narrative web it constructs out of loosely woven naturalistic fibers. As it demonstrates through its minor figures the stupefaction that permanent conflict imposes on its victims, the film permits Cal to draw closer...
...smooth," says Gallico. But it differs from normal tissue in several ways. It lacks hair follicles and sweat glands, which does not appear to be a problem. The new skin is also thinner than natural tissue, having no dermis. The Boston team cautions that it will take years to assess the success of cultured skin, but, says Gallico, "it appears permanent and durable." Still, Jamie and Glen Selby "shouldn't go out and play football," warns Green. The brothers face more skin grafts, plastic surgery and physical therapy, but their most important battle is behind them: they are alive...
NEEDLESS TO SAY, it is Congress business to assess the state of U.S. military preparedness, particularly when faced with blockbuster Defense appropriation requests. And it is everyone's business to keep a watchful and critical eye on government performance, no matter what our "foes" may think. This is what characterizes our society as "open" from those the Reagan Administration has pledged to undermine as distastefully "closed," or totalitarian. Weinberger is certainly not the first to recognize the drawbacks of such openness on military security, but he is among the first to push for its subversion. Under this administration, the dictates...
...first leg of the massive effort to assess more than 360 undergraduate classes has reached its midpoint as the seven member CUE Guide staff puts the finishing touches on the Core Curriculum descriptions...