Word: assessement
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This study is the first to assess the role of dietary acrylamide in humans. No increased risk of large bowel, bladder or kidney cancer was found to be linked to the subtance...
General John H. Tilelli, Jr., the former commander in chief of the U.N. and U.S. forces in Korea, said it would be “foolhardy” to try to assess how close North Korea is to developing the capability to strike the U.S. nuclear-armed missiles...
...assure adroit handling of burgeoning intelligence reports, FBI officials have set up a new "counter-terror watch" desk, staffed around the clock, to assess and disseminate leads and threats faster and more adroitly to field agents and state and local authorities. Until now, few of these threats have been linked with Saddam Hussein. And since he is a secularist, some feel he may have less support among potential terrorists in the radical Muslim community. "But on the other side of the equation," says a senior counter-terror agent, "you will get a number of people who see the war against...
...stones to open a northern front against Iraq. Nearly nine in 10 Turks opposed a U.S.-led war against Iraq in a recent survey. SOLOMON ISLANDS Paradise Lost The remote islands of Tikopia and Anuta were devastated by Cyclone Zoe, but the extent of the damage was difficult to assess because the islands are isolated and lack an airstrip. Initial fears for the safety of the islands' population of 3,000 seemed unfounded when the first contact with Tikopia, by helicopter, discovered that all of the islanders had survived by sheltering in mountain caves. Regional leaders criticized the Solomon Islands...
...British polar explorer Wally Herbert was in the middle of a long sled journey when he tripped on a piece of ice and fell. Sensing his vulnerability, his dogs viciously attacked him. After a few moments the dogs backed away to assess the damage they had done before resuming the attack. Herbert, seizing this opportunity, sprang up to his full height and grabbed his whip out of the sled. Knowing that the old order had returned, the dogs fell into line...