Word: assess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wilkins said yesterday that a written report might be warranted but to take over the coals and assess blame isn't as important in the long run" as working quietly behind the scenes to resolve differences with the city...
Crimson: How would you assess the political scene at Harvard and the widely accepted idea that there is a rising tide of conservatism on campuses...
...early to assess the domestic political impact of the antinuclear sentiment. Although impressive in size, the movement is still rather amorphous and politically unorganized. Democrats are pinning much of the blame on Reagan for the growing fears of nuclear war, and White House aides admit that indiscreet statements by the President and some of his key aides may have contributed to the anxiety. But Administration officials offer no apologies for their talk of a defense buildup, and do not plan to retreat. Says one White House adviser: "One of the prices you pay for raising the specter of Soviet nuclear...
...virtually impossible unless quick action is taken to curb record federal deficits and thus bring down oppressive interest rates. That was the somber verdict of TIME's Board of Economists, which met in New York City last week to review President Reagan's 1983 budget and assess its impact on the economy. The board applauded the dramatic progress that Reagan has made in cooling inflation and restoring incentives for investment, but feared that these gains could be erased by the deficits...
...assess all these controversies of the Roosevelt years has by now become almost an industry, a large and well-organized effort to explain what really happened. The industry's headquarters is at Hyde Park, the first of the great presidential libraries, where more than 150 separate collections of New Deal documents and memoirs are measured not in pages but in linear feet. (One linear foot represents approximately 2,000 pages, and Roosevelt's presidential papers alone extend to 2,076 linear feet...