Word: assessement
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...This Wednesday, Bush may pick his moment to wade in. Moderates in both parties have fashioned a compromise package that the White House may be warm to. But Congress isn't off the hook yet. Bush will assess the chances for passage in his weekly breakfast with top Congressional leaders Wednesday before making any bold moves. Says one senior aide: "He'll get a read and then determine what...
...Jumper--then running the Air Force's Air Combat Command--first realized that his growing fleet of unmanned aircraft represented a missed opportunity. "It just clicked: that if we could put a small weapon on this thing, we could do the entire cycle--find a target, kill it and assess it--from the same vehicle," the Vietnam War pilot recalls. Jumper didn't actually engineer the missile-firing drone, but he oversaw and championed its development. Even more important, he fought the bureaucratic battles needed to get it into the air. On Feb. 21, he prevailed: in a test conducted...
...1970s. The device shines laser beams on chromosomes within cells to make a quick genetic ID. A spin-off of early research into mapping the human genome, the cell sorter is now a standard tool for diagnosing AIDS, leukemia and other cancers. Langlois even took it to Chernobyl to assess workers' genetic damage from radiation exposure after the 1986 nuclear reactor accident...
...which is worsening by the day. It was painful to watch. Such violence is in the background of what we read in the papers. I do not believe that it is wrong to bring such matters to the attention of our students who certainly have the critical faculties to assess what they are watching. The pretense that all this amounts to almost “propaganda” and “indoctrination” is an insult to the intelligence of our students. It is also a slur on the dedicated work being carried out by 10 gifted teaching...
...plan must contain provisions as to how the department will assess English competency and how their TFs will be trained...