Word: assessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toll such measures take on Afghan women is impossible to assess. Several told us how dispiriting it is to be thrown off a bus or forced to sit in the back. We heard reports of an increase in the suicide rate among females, and that many have sunk into despair and depression. For Afghanistan's tyrannized women, there is no escape from an unsparing, medieval way of life...
...when a disease is nontreatable, the burden of knowing can overwhelm the benefits. Nationwide, only 1,500 genetic counselors, most of them drawing on guidelines derived from Brandt's research, have been trained to help people assess such risks. "The protocol developed by Brandt is a paradigm for other late-onset, incurable diseases," says Nancy Wexler, president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation and a leading HD researcher. "It's very responsive to individual needs...
...intimacy was an illusion, is the grief an illusion as well? Or how exactly do we assess the emotional truth of these outpourings? A moment of poignant communion in the Family of Man? A cheap exploitation of sympathies one centimeter deep? Or is there a third possibility? Something to do with mortals and gods and goddesses...
...HEAR THIS A new, portable device called Audx enables doctors and nurses to quickly assess a newborn's hearing. Audx works by transmitting sound waves into a baby's ear and measuring whether the ear produces any vibrations in response...
...meltdown, spokesman Jim Wiggins says, Merrill chairman David Komansky will gather the 13-member management committee in a crisis room on the 32nd floor of the firm's New York City headquarters. The room has video conferencing and a bank of phones. The first task will be to assess the reasons for the crash and decide quickly on a sell, hold or buy strategy to communicate to the branches...