Word: assesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficult to assess how the pitching will fare considering that no pitcher on this year's staff hurled more than thirty innings last season. The youth of the pitching staff is the primary obstacle to an Ivy League crown this season...
...services during the first three months of rebuilding. Such tasks as putting out oil fires and restoring water and power to blasted buildings could cost more than $500 million during this period. As part of the effort, Kuwait awarded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $46 million to help assess the damage and lay the groundwork for reconstruction...
After the Crimson's 7-3 win, only frustrated Engineers Coach Buddy Powers could assess the game's outcome from a different perspective...
...question of "last resort" focuses on alternatives to force, notably economic sanctions. The newly retired Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, hoped that economic sanctions would be tried for months more, even up to a year, before any resort to force. An even more difficult criterion to assess is "proportionality," the weighing of the good and evil results. The antiwar protest from leaders of the National Council of Churches included forecasts of hundreds of thousands of casualties and damage lasting "for generations to come...
...Allied war planes battered Iraq for the 20th day today, President Bush said he was sending his defense secretary and top military man to assess the war effort...