Word: assess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shah's end was far from princely: the hasty flight, the uncertain wandering, the last hours in a hospital far from Tehran. Those images make it hard to assess history's ultimate verdict. "He ruled as a lion and a fox," concludes Professor James Bill, an Iran specialist at the University of Texas, "but in the process he forgot the needs of his people. He insulated and isolated himself from them, and in the end failed to build the political institutions and social trust they needed." He steered his country into a revolution, only to find that...
SWAPO is different from Mugabe, even though one cannot really assess these things beforehand. [SWAPO President Sam] Nujoma has not got the intellectual equipment that Mugabe and his closer associates have. SWAPO and Nujoma, as far as one can judge, are more the clients of the Soviets than Mugabe ever was. I do not think a SWAPO victory would be in the best interests of Namibia. It would certainly create problems for South Africa. But I believe South Africa would still act wisely [and try to] work out a pragmatic policy of mutual coexistence with Namibia...
...four such intellectual forays TIME has sponsored so far this year. In January, prepping for the campaign year, the Nation section traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Congress, political advisers, party professionals and pollsters.In March editorial staff members convened with experts on Soviet-American relations to assess the present parlous state of affairs between the superpowers. Last month TIME Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan organized a one-day colloquy on the plight of American families. Twelve outsiders, knowledgeable on 'such problems as child abuse, domestic relations and aging, joined 22 people from TIME in a wide-ranging...
That dream of economic strength has never materialized. Viet Nam today is a somber country where austere militarism remains a way of life. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss and Photographer Dirck Halstead, who both covered the Viet Nam War, recently spent 17 days in Viet Nam to assess what has gone wrong-and what is going right. De Voss 's report...
...favored a blockade through the mining of the ports. If it had been done very suddenly, it would have been very hard for them to reorient their economy without enormous disruption. And maybe the threat of our doing that would have got the hostages released. Today we have to assess the situation in terms of what alternative sources the Iranian authorities have already developed, basically the Soviet Union. In short what would the real effect of a blockade be? Also, what would be its impact on other gulf states? What is the relationship of the Afghan to the Iranian crisis...