Word: assessed
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...Gathering, assessing, and using evidence. What counts as evidence relevant to a given thesis or hypothesis? How is it acquired? How does one assess its validity and its implications? Science, history and economics answer these questions in different ways. An educated person should understand the similarities and differences between the three sets of answers...
...spouse, for instance, or impotence at the time of marriage. In 1968 only 338 decrees of nullity were granted in the U.S. But in the early 1960s, John Keating, a young American priest, wrote an influential doctoral dissertation summarizing Vatican rulings that justified the use of "psychological insights" to assess failed marriages. Since then American clergy have psychologized enthusiastically. The Archdiocese of Chicago, for instance, will now consider annulling the union of a "person [who did] not intend to care for his/her partner...
...that with Newt completely blowing the public-opinion battle over the government shutdown because he couldn't keep from whining about having to get off Air Force One by the back door. We need this man. We figure the only fair way to divide up the tab is to assess all press people according to how much they've written about...
GRAND FORKS, North Dakota: As the Red River continued to rise above its banks in some areas, the White House said President Clinton will tour North Dakota on Tuesday to assess the extent of the flood damage. One of his stops: Grand Forks, which lost several buildings, including the offices and newsroom of the Grand Forks Herald, after a fire raged through the area. The paper lost its entire microfilm collection, which dated back to 1879 and recorded almost all of the city's history. The firefighting effort was crippled by water as high as five feet between the buildings...
Dean Hamer is concerned enough about these dangers that he wants to restrict the use of genetic tests for homosexuality. "We believe that it would be fundamentally unethical," he and his colleagues wrote in their 1993 paper, "to use such information to try to assess or alter a person's current or future sexual orientation." Hamer has talked of patenting the relevant DNA sequences, thus preventing the commercial development of blood tests...