Word: assesses
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Derek C. Bok has written a book that is an insightful and tough assessment of the performance of American higher education. But as the author enters his last of twenty years as president of one of the nation's premier research universitites, it is a perhaps unintended, but inevitable, consequence that his book will be used as a yardstick to assess the performance of Bok himself and of the Harvard he has shaped...
...know from observation that there have been preventable deaths," says an emergency-room doctor at a private New York hospital. "Ambulances don't get there soon enough. Nurses can't get medicine to patients on schedule. Physicians can't assess all the critically ill patients early. The IVs, the antibiotics and the cardiac medications are delayed. There are no monitors available and sometimes no one to monitor the monitor...
Initially, the committee set out to assess thestatus of women at the College and to verifywhether their perceptions of disparate treatmentwere accurate, says Peggy B. Schmertzler...
Presently, administrators are studying Harvard's complex tutorial system, making an effort to assess how they work, and ultimately, how they should work...
...last. To find out why his article was killed, Vargha began a more thorough investigation. He immersed himself in subjects such as irrigation and geology and was named to a commission of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to assess the dam's impact. One area at risk: the Danube Bend, a graceful curve of the river near the historic residence of Hungarian kings. Though the government banned public debate on the project, Vargha persisted. He helped publish a newsletter about the dam and circulated a petition against it that drew 10,000 signatures -- an action that, at the time...