Word: assessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extraordinary lengths to reassure Russians that they have nothing to fear from the redesign. The Treasury Department has posted explanatory flyers in Russian in Moscow and set up an information hot line, which is receiving up to 150 calls a day. The department has even run focus groups to assess Russian reactions to the new bill. The U.S. wants to head off any event that might destabilize Russia. In 1990, when a slightly modified $100 bill was issued, the General Accounting Office severely criticized Treasury for failing to educate the Russian public properly. Officials also fear any perception that...
...result of this inaccurate portrayal is the difficulty with which the public struggles against media-induced extremity, and attempts to formulate its own rational opinion of these "condemned prior to judged" politicians. How can we fairly assess Hillary Rodham Clinton's status without falling into one of the two media-produced camps? These days, it seems one must either join the majority in condemning Mrs. Clinton as a corrupt, adversarial Jezebel leading her husband into ruin or fight with the underdogs as a staunch Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter. These are the two ends of the spectrum, carefully constructed...
...There is broad consensus that standardized test scores can be valuable as one factor, among several, in helping to assess candidates for admission.... The correlation between SAT scores and future academic success, however, is far from exact. It is not uncommon for individuals to outperform (or underperform) what the tests 'predict'--often by significant margins. In addition, the predictive power of the tests diminishes over time...
...deal's ancillary elements can make it tricky to assess. Warner Bros. signed Madonna to a $60 million deal and even gave the Material Girl her very own record label. Madonna's last few records have sold only about 3 million copies apiece, substandard for her, but the deal's overall returns look better because her private label has fared well (its latest success: imported Canadian diva Alanis Morissette, whose Grammy-nominated CD Jagged Little Pill has hit No. 1). The Rolling Stones' two albums since their 1992 $35 million contract with Virgin have had mild sales, but the fact...
...truly outsize, especially since Thurber's life was not very eventful, the book is hardly a literary curiosity. Reading it exposes in large type the problem with many biographies in recent years: a refusal to use editorial judgment to assess the relative worth of research. The first part of the book describes in separate chapters the important people in Thurber's early life: family, teachers, bosses and, yes, his dogs. Later the same method is used about the New Yorker years. As the cast expands, each previous character is reintroduced. The repetition is remorseless. Further, paragraphs of quotations--from letters...