Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Assess the differences between companies that have management 'training as entry points--Smithkline, Chemical Bank, Chubb--and those that do not--The New York Times, McKinsey & Co. Compare the tradeoffs and advantages of each approach...
...Mack and William R. Beardslee, the group distributed questionnaires to more than 1000 students in public and private high schools in Boston, Los Angeles and Baltimore over the course of three years. Their task, according to an article they wrote for the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, "to assess the attitudes of children and adolescents toward nuclear war, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power plants...
...featured most recently last June, when the magazine reported that his influence in the Kremlin had reached an unprecedented level. Gromyko's arrival in the U.S. to meet with President Reagan and Democratic Candidate Mondale this week gave TIME'S editors a valuable opportunity to assess the state of the superpower relationship and its impact on the domestic political scene...
After Washington Attorney Jacob Stein took on the court-appointed task last April of investigating Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese's tangled personal finances, Democrats promptly asked him to assess Meese's fitness to serve as Attorney General. Meese's lawyers, on the other hand, urged Stein to declare that "the evidence does not substantiate the loose charges of moral turpitude against Mr. Meese." Stein refused to take either course. In a 385-page report, which was made public last week, Stein concluded that he found no evidence that would support any criminal charges against the President...
...Election Day approaches, a number of contests around the nation are proving especially significant. To assess the chances of Senate, House and gubernatorial candidates and help shed light on local and state issues, TIME this week begins regular coverage of some key races of the campaign...