Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to assess what happened to the spirit of Geneva must begin with the question of whether it really existed at all. In the sense of a genuine urge to compose differences, it probably never did. At most, there was an ephemeral belief by each leader that for the moment it suited his purposes to be seen chatting politely around a cozy fire with the other. But those purposes were quite different...
...dimension: tests showed low-level concentrations of heptachlor in the breast milk of some 70 Arkansas mothers. The women were among several thousand who brought samples of their breast milk to laboratories around the state. As more than 1,000 additional women clamored for tests, doctors tried to assess the risk of continued breast feeding. While the effects of the heptachlor have yet to be determined, nursing mothers face the unsettling prospect of having contaminated their children...
Institutional analysis attempts to assess and improve government operations. One of Kelman's five books compares safety and health regulation in Sweden...
Need some easy money? How about $500 for six afternoons of sleeping in your bedroom, listening to music, and eating junk food? And don't forget about filling out those questionaires every hour which assess the "mood-altering effects" of the three pills you swallowed...
...Senate last week (it goes to the House Intelligence Committee this week) may prompt a far more detailed examination of the CIA's plans than ever. Durenberger has been pushing for such a document ever since he became head of the committee, on the ground that legislators cannot properly assess any specific CIA budget request unless they can see how it fits into a set of national intelligence priorities --assumi ng that one exists. As far as anyone knows, none did until last week. The closest thing was a paper called DCID 1/2 (for Director of Central Intelligence Document...