Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson entered the Carelton Crowell Memorial Track here Saturday, with most of its distance corps still resting after a grucling cross-country season, not looking for victories but rather a chance to assess itself...
Whatever else was happening in the election may take longer to assess. Political observers tell us that Reagan makes people happy, and that Americans love to be happy. But where are there people who do not want to be happy, and what proof is there that Americans, more than anyone else, seek happiness at the expense of reality? For that matter, what proof is there that Americans are especially selfish, or that those who preferred Reagan care not a whit for the poor, or are cruising for a war with the Soviets? Most citizens are as generous as they...
...transform the lead of his campaign into White House gold. But in that, both candidates mostly proved what has always been true: presidential nominees win or lose elections primarily on their own. The longer-term impact of Ferraro's candidacy, while it will take months or even years to assess completely, is almost certain to make gender a less rending issue in presidential politics. And in that respect, the consequences of her candidacy are likely to be immense...
...difficult to assess the enigmatic and contradictory personality of the woman who ruled India for most of two decades, but the roots must lie somewhere in those years of loneliness. Daughter of a champion of democracy, she made herself at one point a virtual dictator. She could be warm and charming but also arrogant and ruthless. She always had a look of sadness. "I like being Prime Minister, yes, but... I am not ambitious," she once said. And on another occasion: "I could have become an interior decorator. I could even have become a dancer...
Against that backdrop, the TIME Pacific Board of Economists gathered in Tokyo for its third annual meeting to assess the region's economic performance and prospects. The board members reported that East Asia is enjoying its most spectacular growth since the go-go years of the 1970s. Japan, the area's industrial giant, is cruising at a 5% to 6% annual pace, while fast-rising South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong are expanding at supercharged rates in the 7% to 10% range. Even China, which a decade ago was an economic backwater, is growing...