Word: assess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the restrictions on their role. They feel hamstrung by the tight security that protects them against combat casualties or assassination ("a professional risk," says one officer). They would prefer to observe their students in the field, rather than depend on secondhand reports. They are unable, for instance, to assess how aggressive the Salvadoran soldiers are on combat patrols or in firefights with the guerrillas...
...retaliation, scores of people have been murdered by both Obote's ragtag army and a sinister array of secret police organizations whose homicidal excesses begin to rival those of Amin's dreaded State Research Bureau. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White went to Kampala last week to assess the country's continuing travail. His report...
...agree that questions about batting one's eyelashes are inappropriate at any level of the selection process. We regret that interviewing committees are sometimes unable to assess women's abilities to react to stress without raising sex-related issues. However, we also think that students should realize the obligation of committees to raise sensitive issues which may be encountered by the student, to gauge command over a plan of study, and to test commitment to a future career. Most fellowships are not strictly objective and represent an investment in an individual's potential as well as a reward for academic...
...assess the political fallout from the abortion conflict, Washington Correspondent Jeanne Saddler interviewed Eleanor Smeal, the pro-abortion president of the National Organization for Women, and Carl Anderson, a legislative aide to pro-life Senator Jesse Helms. Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan returned to Albany, where she reported her first abortion story in 1977. "In four years," says Dolan, "abortion politics in Albany has moved from a personal ideological discussion to a major issue in the women's movement and now to a partisan political confrontation." Correspondent Evan Thomas interviewed legal scholars about the constitutional implications of antiabortion legislation...
...convinced by the conversation that the President planned to undo the appointment. But then at 6:20 p.m., State Department Spokesman William Dyess broke into Haig's office with word that Bush had indeed been named crisis manager. Haig was stunned. "This must be wrong," he muttered. To assess the situation, Haig then consulted with his top aides in a series of talks that lasted nearly three hours. "It was a put-down for him," said a participant. "He was hurt." The Secretary and his confidants tried to explore the motivations behind the appointment. Was it a slap...