Word: assess
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Spring fellow Hans Bergstrom, chief editor of Dagens Nyheter, a leading Swedish newspaper, will use the semester to continue work on his book about the biotechnology revolution, and will assess the effects of images of age in American and European newspapers...
...energy challenge." His main fear is that he will be forced to raise rates--in effect, charge consumers full price--something no politician wants to do. "I'm not raising rates; forget it," he says. He has been talking "almost every day" to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, to assess how the financial markets might react to various bailout scenarios. "People always say I'm dull and boring. Well, that helps during a crisis...
...hard to assess myself. It's better for the Shanghai people to rate me. But I should be able to score...
...that allows both sides to claim their demands have been satisfied. The deal, whose details are still being fiercely contested, would require the Palestinians to drop claims for the right of refugees to return to Israel. The negotiators are due to report back to President Clinton on Saturday, to assess the possibility of closing the gaps...
Could the closest and most bitterly divisive election in modern American history prove to be a boon to the U.S. economy? Absolutely, say members of TIME's Board of Economists, who gathered in Washington to assess the outlook after the murkiest presidential election in a century. With neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore commanding a clear mandate and the U.S. Senate virtually split down the middle, TIME's experts saw little risk of any broad and possibly destabilizing shifts in economic policy next year--regardless of who becomes the 43rd President...