Word: assesses
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While concerned with the school's financial matters, Wolff has also pledged to make the deanship a position from which he can better relate to department chairs and assess the progress of the individual graduate programs...
Part of the answer is that neither candidate has been willing to start thinking about the military budget from scratch, to assess what America's defense requirements will be in a new world order and from there determine what force levels and structure would best meet those needs. Because both are reluctant to dismantle the world's greatest fighting machine, they are trying to calculate how much they will be obliged to cut rather than how much defense the nation really needs. Yet generations of military thinkers have agreed that the best way to find out what kind of defense...
This week an emergency airlift is to begin delivering food throughout the country, and a technical team will arrive in Mogadishu to assess the needs for a return to peace; 50 cease-fire observers from 10 nations are already in the capital. But the U.N. will not begin distribution of food and aid without the security provided by a 500-man Pakistani battalion, on standby since April. So far General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, one of two rivals destroying the country they would govern, has balked at accepting armed blue helmets...
Company executives discussed with White House officials "how they would assure continuity of corporate management, assess surviving capability . . . and mesh their company plans with those of government." Company officials balked when it appeared the government might take over the firm in wartime. Ultimately, the executives prepared a "unified emergency plan," and were to be provided with radio-communications equipment for the site...
When you live within a community, it's often difficult to take a step back and assess its problems. Things aren't always falling apart between your eyes--when I lived in Weld, I never guessed that the electrical system needed repair so desperately. And often, a home can be appealing despite its drawbacks. I loved Weld for its front steps, its high ceilings and its spacious landings. While I wished it had fireplaces and private bathrooms, I made the most of my experience there...