Word: assesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the album's title track, which restates all of the questions with which she and the record embarked. "Is this desire?" she asks, then interjects "enough, enough!" as though over-whelmed by her own album's energy: Harvey needs space, in the end, to clear her thoughts and assess her position. Is desire an endpoint, or was it all along the process by which an invisible endpoint was sought--heartening but exhausting, like Harvey's songs? And what if we repunctuate: "Is this desire enough? Enough?" Here, Harvey's passion, evidenced in the album's whoops and tremblings...
...large would have answered, Who cares? None of the three versions of economic contraction registered even as blips on the national radar screen. But brace yourself: it may be time to make those painful distinctions. The consensus of TIME's Board of Economists, which convened recently in Manhattan to assess the outlook through next year, is that the issue is no longer academic. It is practical and even pressing...
Last week, for example, an FDA advisory panel recommended that the agency approve a new drug called Enbrel. The week before, the full FDA had given the nod to another anti-rheumatoid arthritis drug called Arava. Next month the agency will assess a promising blood-filtration device that clears the body of arthritis-promoting substances the same way kidney dialysis cleans the blood of toxins. Within a few months the FDA will also consider a new class of anti-inflammatories called COX-2 inhibitors (a.k.a. "super aspirin") that will attack arthritis pain. Says Steven Abramson, an FDA adviser and chief...
Once the independent counsel's 445-page report was made public, the bureau's correspondents had more hard information on the investigation, more new leads to run down and more legal and political fallout to assess...
...week later, after Giuliani had inveighed against the float and suspended or fired the firefighters involved, the New York Times went back to Broad Channel to assess the community's reaction. "Those guys on the float, I know they play with the colored people," said one Broad Channel resident. "It was all in fun. I wish every kid in the Channel could grow up like that bunch...