Word: assesses
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Nixon's mental and emotional state is difficult to assess, and is still the subject of conflicting reports. "Everyone is searching for clues," David Eisenhower told TIME last week. "He walked the Red Beach alone countless times in his 5½ years as President. That he is walking the Red Beach in solitude now does not mean that he is a broken man." Those who visit Nixon to discuss future projects such as his memoirs or the Nixon Foundation have found him "direct of mind" and "alert," but others describe him as "deeply depressed" and "very tired" and occasionally...
...Lowell House secretary claims that it would be impossible to assess the crowding situation there until the end of September...
...devil." These bitter words of Peter Stylianakis, a retired civil servant, could have come from any other Greek on Cyprus. With the guns stilled and Turkish troops in control of more than one-third of the island, the once dominant Greek community had a chance last week to assess the damage caused by four weeks of war. The picture could not have been grimmer, and in their fear and frustration the island's Greeks lashed out at the U.S., which they blamed for their troubles. A group of demonstrators stormed the American embassy in Nicosia and burned the Stars...
...this special issue, we try to assess the state of the union, describe Ford's entrance and Nixon's exit, introduce the new President, his family and his team, recall Richard Nixon's extraordinary rise and fall, witness the agony of his family, assess his legal future. We also recapitulate the long, fatal Watergate misadventure that felled him, attempt to evoke the mood of the nation, and hear from various commentators about what last week's tragic yet hopeful developments mean to the U.S. and where the country moves from there. The consensus seems...
Just how to explain the transcripts publicly was a dilemma. Before the details were worked out, Nixon could conceivably change his mind. In a move that seemed designed to block any such possibility and to assess Congressional reaction, Haig and St. Clair on Friday, Aug. 2, asked the President's ablest defender on the House Judiciary Committee, California's Charles Wiggins, to come to the White House. He had never been in Haig's office before...