Word: assesses
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...Congress has an obligation to investigate and assess responsibility at all levels of the Executive Branch from the highest officers on down for the abuses in Abu Ghraib and other Iraqi prisons,” the letter stated...
...hailing the country's ongoing National Convention as a historic landmark. Last week, Prime Minister Khin Nyunt visited Malaysia and Thailand to sell the event as part of Burma's enlightened transition to what he calls a "modern democratic state." But it's been difficult for outsiders to assess the scale of the generals' democratic achievement, because foreign media and diplomats?along with independent Burmese reporters?have been denied access to the convention. There are other absentees, too, most notably Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace laureate and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), which...
...Cable operators should salivate to carry the only channel dedicated to China," he says. But the news program needed a major overhaul. Soon after he took the job, Terenzio installed a satellite dish atop his Los Angeles home and pointed it at the CCTV satellite so that he could assess the task at hand...
...committee, which will probably be composed of administrators, students and faculty members, will assess other schools’ extracurricular programs in considering how to revise Harvard’s. It will also examine the possibility of distinguishing between official recognition and registration of student groups...
...immediate response was to vow that "retribution is unavoidable for those whom we are fighting." But after his trip to Grozny, he took a different tack. He ordered 1,125 more Chechen police to the capital, but also announced that a government team would visit the region to assess its social and economic needs. Alexander Veshnyakov, chairman of the Central Election Commission, confirmed that fresh presidential elections would take place by Sept. 5. The Kremlin's new tone prompted hopes that another round of retribution might be avoided. Putin "could really go down in history as the person who ended...