Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make clear: he would continue to expose Communists and crooks "even if it embarrasses my own party." And with this tight-lipped understatement, a week of throwing eggs at electric fans came to an end. The Republican Party sat down to take the omelet out of its hair and assess the damage...
This is a convincing argument. But it would seem to establish a principle (the allowed evasion of questions which if answered might lead to error) by which a man could evade any question he pleases. For error is always possible, and the probability of error is so difficult to assess that the principle would be ineffective unless highly subjective estimations were allowed. Such a principle could actually make the person being examined the judge of the fitness of the court, hence of its authority. And this would seem dangerous to the implementation of justice. This consequence raises doubts concerning...
With Trujillo's press attacking them steadily, and with his sanitary inspectors likely to drop in any time to assess heavy fines for a loose roof tile or a leaky pipe, the U.S. companies can not be sure what their eventual fate may be. This week representatives of West Indies and South Porto Rico are scheduled to fly from New York for a meeting at which they hope to find out what the Benefactor really wants-and why the boss so often defended as friendly to business has been giving business the business...
...missed treatment of the subject of the moral rehabilitation of Germany. Before we can affirm or negate that the re-emergence of Germany during 1953 has changed the world picture, we have to assess whether some of the fundamental issues have been met by Adenauer's Germany...
...untroubled by taking the side of the Republican element he had often condemned as "the Old Guard," Stevenson went on to define his stand on the exposure of Communists in Government. "Root out, I say. agents .of this satanic worldwide conspiracy, disclose the mistakes and failures of the past, assess the responsibility, let the chips fall where they may. But for the love of heaven let us do it with dignity, objectivity and justice, and with some better motive than partisan strife...