Word: assesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss of one adrenal gland has not presented any complications. Nor is rejection a problem, because the grafted tissue is the patient's own. Encouraged, Madrazo's team has tried the procedure on eight other patients. They are "doing well," Madrazo says, but it is too soon to assess the effects...
...Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society. "We have the gut feeling they're good for you, but how they're good and what can be done with that, we don't know." Now things are beginning to change. A variety of health professionals have started to assess rigorously pets' impact on physical and mental health. Meanwhile, the beneficiaries of programs in prisons, hospitals and nursing homes do not much care about cool science but are warmly grateful for what amounts to animal therapy. A groundbreaking study came in 1980, when researchers from the Universities of Maryland and Pennsylvania...
Hodel is not the only Government official expressing concern. Next week the Department of Energy will release a 400-page report that will examine America'svulnerability to another major energy crisis. National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci will assess the possible security threat posed by a weakened U.S. petroleum industry. At stake also is the stability of Europe and the rest of the oil-consuming world. Since oil is traded in one global market, rising U.S. imports could create a worldwide crunch...
This study is an example of a growing national trend toward increased critical evaluation of higher education. At Harvard and other universities, educators are trying to assess whether or not higher education is achieving its goals and what those goals should...
THERE COMES a time in a man's life when he is forced to look back upon his achievements and assess what he has made of himself. Julius Caesar, it is said, was moved to tears when he contemplated a statue of a young Alexander and considered the accomplishments of his own first 20 years. My own first such moment came at age four, when the Kindergarten putsch I had engineered was suppressed by the gym teacher...