Word: assesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will future editions assess his eight years in office? He is already so sensitive to the question and what it implies, aides say, that the mere sight of the word legacy in print is enough to trigger an eruption of the famous Clinton temper. He knows well that, as historian Michael Beschloss notes, "most Presidents are really not in the heroic mode." To be one of the greats requires surmounting a crisis on the scale of the Civil War or the Great Depression, or having ideas strong enough to change the way an entire nation thinks...
...great runner, one of the best. As you assess the new track, you don't see a possible defeat but instead another victory. Many of you have trained for this race your whole lives with personalized coaching and custom gear. Others have just stumbled across this place on your way to some other place. All of you are ready...
...HEARTBURN A new blood test--coupled with an electrocardiogram--helps doctors quickly assess whether a patient with chest pains is really having a heart attack. The test measures troponin, a protein released by damaged heart muscle...
...danger. As preemies, and especially as multiple preemies, they'll continue to run a higher risk of developmental problems. Shaw explains that the parents will be encouraged to put the babies through screenings at four months, nine months, 18 months and 30 months to assess their motor and cognitive development. Ideally, every stage--from when they sit up to when they crawl, walk and talk--should be scrutinized by experts. It may be years before their full physical and mental potential is known for sure...
...sort through the controversy and assess the quality of that research, the National Institutes of Health last week assembled a panel of experts in a scientific court known officially as a consensus conference. After three days of analyzing studies and interrogating practitioners, the panel was unexpectedly upbeat. "It's time to take acupuncture seriously," said its chairman, David Ramsay, president of the University of Maryland. "There are a number of situations where it really does work...