Word: assess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeking open-discussion with often-frustrated junior professors, students may find support for proposals such as systematic undergraduate advice on tenure decisions. While students' abilities to assess professors' scholarly credentials are often slim, undergraduates can often give valuable assessments of a faculty member's lecturing talents or willingness to devote extra time and energy to working with students...
...July De Lorean surprised everyone and infuriated the Governor of Puerto Rico by making a deal with the British instead. The British went along even in the face of some discouraging reports. The management consulting firm of McKinsey & Co. was asked to assess De Lorean's proposal and reported back that the project had only a one-in-ten chance of succeeding. Nonetheless, the British Labor Party, which was then in power, outbid Puerto Rico by promising some $110 million to get De Lorean's factory to Ulster...
...utility firm visit the Michele Clark Middle School in a poverty-ridden district on Chicago's West Side to teach the principles of supplying energy to the neighborhood. Youngsters from eight classes survey the school's area, christened Clark City for purposes of the project, and assess the needs through scale drawings and detailed models, complete with wiring, batteries and lights. Says Anton Anderson, 12: "I know all about kilowatts now and B.T.U.s. That's British thermal units." During the past year, pupils in the Clark City classes boosted their reading-skill level by 14 months, compared...
...conference concluded with an open meeting to assess the afternoon's effectiveness and discuss ways of improving such events in the future...
...attempts to assess the merit of the doctors' charges have been inconclusive. An FDA investigation in August found that two out of 17 poultry samples from Puerto Rico were "suspect for estrogenic activity." Despite this, says FDA District Director Lynn Campbell, the analysis "has uncovered no evidence of the unlawful use or abuse of estrogen or hormone-like compounds...