Word: assess
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...lawyers close to the case say is "new and important" testimony that is potentially damaging to Mrs. Clinton from former Clinton business partner and failed S&L head James McDougal. According to lawyers, Starr and his key investigators have been meeting this week in Washington and Little Rock to assess evidence gathered over the three-year probe. Their blueprint: a 300-page memo that analyzes the mountain of information gathered over the course of the investigation, most of which details material involving the First Lady, according to lawyers who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Of particular...
...Vermont someone from the state's Success by Six program first visits a home within two weeks of a baby's birth. "That gets us in the door at age zero instead of age five, so we can assess what families need," Governor Howard Dean points out. Visits may continue for up to three years. "It is so inexpensive," says Dean, "to take care of children relative to the other things we do, such as build jails and put up expensive social-service networks for runaway youth...
...time for us, for all of us, to take a closer look at what's really happening in Israel. To look past the biases and deficits in reportage, to put aside the propaganda, to re-assess and attempt to understand. And, most importantly, to remember. --Kevin Shapiro...
Although Jones is handling only 70 breast-implant cases, his opinion is expected to exert considerable influence on other judges who are grappling with similar suits brought by thousands of women. One reason: Jones took the unusual step of appointing four independent experts to assess the purported link between the rupture of silicone implants and specific physical complaints. These experts--an immunologist, an immunologist/toxicologist, a rheumatologist and a polymer chemist--arrived at the same conclusion reached by many others, including Dr. Marcia Angell, executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine: localized problems, notably the painful hardening of breast...
Certainly Judge Jones can be applauded for attempting to apply rational standards to an area of testimony that too often has promoted confusion over clarity. He has heeded the Supreme Court's ruling, in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, that judges should try to independently assess the scientific merits of expert testimony--and in so doing, he may hasten the resolution of a legal ordeal that has brought anxiety and psychological pain to many women...