Word: assessement
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...THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Other New Frontiersmen stood closer to the President, but none were better equipped than Harvard Historian Schlesinger to describe the moods and assess the deeds of the Kennedy Administration, and none have done so more successfully...
They enter the Canyon with no notion of what they are to do for the summer. Phillips Brooks House has promised to pay for their maintenance while they "assess community needs" and develop projects to "mobilize community interest...
...budget and the level of economic activity. Another common experience was war-time work in such agencies as the Office of Strategic Services (Edward S. Mason, Walt Rostow, Carl Kaysen) or the Strategic Bombing Survey (J.K. Galbraith), where economists, whether in order to pick out bombing targets or to assess the significance of the damage wrought, had to think in terms of leverage points within the economic system. Both depression and war thus forced attention on the dynamics of whole economies. Some of the Cambridge group later worked in the Marshall Plan (Lincoln Gordon); others took part in Ford Foundation...
...week's end the rains subsided, and city officials could at last assess the damage. They had already counted 214 dead and 2,000 injured. More victims would be found as digging continued at the worst-hit favelas...
...heart of the Harvard Policy Committee's Department Audit Plan is the provision that calls for the HPC to study and report on each department every four years. According to the present guidelines, the reports will assess strengths and weaknesses of the departments and evaluate individual courses and instructors. If the situation warrants, the HPC will recommend specific changes, such as the addition of new middle-level courses, possible reforms in tutorials or examinations, or perhaps even shifts in concentration requirements...