Word: assesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King is discussing with his staff the advisability of immediately conducting a study to assess the situation...
...jury of eight men and four women had filed somberly into the courtroom a little after noon. Judge Brown read their verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder with malice and assess the penalty at death." Ruby stared at the jury, bit his lip, then scuttled impassively out of the room behind a phalanx of sheriff's officers. But his attorney, barrel-chested Melvin Belli, was thunderstruck. He leaped to his feet, shouting, "Don't worry, Jack! We'll appeal this and take it out of Dallas...
Each government tried to make propaganda capital out of the perfidy of the other. Hastily assembling a delegation of foreign correspondents, India raced them to relief camps in Assam, where 50,000 Hindus and Christians had fled to escape Moslem persecution, arson, and murder. It was not easy to assess the accuracy of all the atrocity stories being handed the press. One group said that it had been machine-gunned by Pakistani border guards as it tried to cross the frontier; the original claim of 200 refugees killed in the slaughter was later downgraded to two. The Pakistanis could retort...
Such a step may appear minor, but actually involves a significant retreat. Without interviews, a Master, if he intends to involve himself in the selection process, must assess all applicants to his House solely from an application form. Surely even a brief interview with a tutor provides the Master with slightly better information on which to base his choice. Interviews further serve in some small way to convey information about the House to the prospective applicants...
Gerachenkron's spring half course, entitled "The Political Element in Economic History," will "attempt to assess the significance of the political element in economic development," Gerschenkron said. It will draw its examples of economic development from the history of nineteenth century Europe...