Word: assesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for this reticence seems manifest: Mrs. Meir's career ended on a stark and bitter note. During the Yom Kippur War, it fell to her as Premier to assess intelligence reports of Arab intentions and, as a circle of one, decide at what point the Israeli army should be mobilized. She waited too long; before mobilization was finally ordered and the battle with Egypt and Syria stabilized, Israel had lost more men than in any war since 1948. "I should have listened to the warnings of my heart and ordered a call-up," she now admits. For Israel...
...mean. Though the Soviets have often criticized Schlesinger as an ugly American, Moscow reacted cautiously to his ouster, because Rumsfeld is virtually unknown to them. In contrast, the Chinese officials feared that Schlesinger's firing could produce closer ties between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Now they may want to assess the impact of the Cabinet shuffle before confirming that Ford's China trip will take place as scheduled in early December...
...assess Donald Rumsfeld as the new Defense Secretary...
...success of the report may be debatable, not one of the committee members interviewed had any regrets about undertaking the study. Most considered the report valuable at least for discussion and inventory purposes. It is very important to stop everything once in a while and evaluate the college and assess it, Simmons says today. "It is difficult to come up with a better alternative within the reasonable economic framework...
...hope. So far NEPA has delayed construction but its usefulness is limited. Specialists in environmental law say that it is difficult to win a "second generation" NEPA case--a challenge of the federal government's final decision once it has met the "first generation" or procedural NEPA requirements to assess impact. Fortunately the Sierra Club's suit is based on other environmental laws that may allow the club's lawyers to delay the project indefinitely or even kill it entirely...