Word: assesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though the choice of where to go is the culmination of twelve years of schoolwork, many will make the decision knowing little about the place they choose. They must sort through a choked mailbox of color brochures from student-hungry colleges, face down a blizzard of intimidating forms, and assess parental advice that is based either on no college experience or 20-year-old impressions. Enter the college guidance counselor to champion the student's cause. Too often, though, such a paladin is battered with overwork...
...have here in America a curious situation: we spend more on health care than other industrial nations, yet a larger percentage of our citizenry is without financial protection. At the same time we are told there is a surplus of physicians and hospital beds, millions of Americans lack assess to health care. Just as we have people going hungry in a land that could grow more food, so we have people who get sick unable to enter a system that could help them. We are far, and getting further, from equity of access...
Princeton to Assess State of Humanities...
Departing Princeton President William G. Bowen has appointed a committee to assess the strength of the humanities at the university and the effectiveness of distribution requirements in ensuring that all students receive a humanistic background...
These moves were resented by the Iran desk, including Larry Larkin, one of its senior officers. Aware of the friction and needing the expertise of the desk's operatives, Casey offered them part of the action: they were asked to assess Ghorbanifar. Larkin first attempted to recruit Ghorbanifar as a CIA contract agent, which would put the Iranian under his control. When Ghorbanifar refused, Larkin and his colleagues set out to discredit him. This deepened Ghorbanifar's long-standing distrust...