Word: assesses
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...chemicals in these foods are carcinogenic in rats, which may or may not mean anything for humans; and they are tested at very high doses, which may not apply at the levels people normally ingest. And that, the authors emphasize, is the point: the traditional method used to assess cancer risk is flawed and should be reformed...
...freedoms in China less than a year before democracy was massacred in Tiananmen Square: "The changes in China since Barbara and I lived there are absolutely amazing in terms of incentives and partnerships and things of that nature." No reporter was clairvoyant enough to ask the Vice President to assess the intentions of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But Bush brought up Iraq himself as a way of dodging a politically tricky question about arms sales to Iran. To the Vice President in 1988 -- two years before Iraq invaded Kuwait -- stability in the Persian Gulf was a triumph of Reagan...
...approach to diseases in general has been sort of haphazard," says Donna Brogan, chairperson of the biostatistics division at Emory University's School of Public Health and a member of the research task force for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. By organizing their own scientific meetings, advocates help assess the state of research for a particular disease and look for areas that need strengthening. "That's unique to them," says NIH director Healy. "They are setting bold, far-reaching goals...
...money could ever fully compensate for the havoc wreaked by the Valdez spill, but the record $1.025 billion in fines and damages imposed on Exxon by a federal judge last October should have provided the state and federal governments with an extraordinary opportunity to take further protective measures, assess remaining problems and mollify resentful citizens. Instead, the deal has touched off a chorus of outrage from residents and environmentalists, who wanted a minimum of $2 billion, and has ignited a fierce debate over how best to spend the sum. Says biologist Rick Steiner of the University of Alaska: "The last...
...economic forum last week in New York City, TIME asked a panel of leading economists and marketplace experts to assess the Bush and Clinton programs. Such analysis is a bit like looking at clouds, since both candidates offer wispy details and imaginative arithmetic. Their vagueness is not surprising, as the federal deficit has made it almost impossible to craft a stimulative economic plan in which the numbers add up without aggravating the red ink. "They really don't have solutions because the problems are so complicated nobody can solve them, not even within the next 10 years," said the Boston...