Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-term effects of that election are difficult to assess. The Reagan Administration has sparked a lot of criticism, and in the spring of freshman year 2000 people marched through the Yard and the streets to protest the United States policy toward El Salvador. Two years later, several hundred students showed up at a demonstration against draft registration...
...with, some claim, indigestion from their atypical Harvard experience: a takeover of University Hall and subsequent re-taking by Cambridge police; a general "strike" of classes; demonstrations; campus-wide meetings; and highly confrontational struggles. This week is their 15th reunion, a chance for them to come back and assess whether Harvard has changed since they took to the streets and, more importantly, if they themselves have changed more than superficially in the intervening years...
There is a remarkable range in the ways people assess their College experience. Not so long ago having succumbed to a request for a series of "then" and "now" talks, I was speaking to a small group of alumnae and alumni in Palo Alto about changes in the College. I had barely reached the lectern when an elderly member of the audience, whose sixty-fifth reunion must have been history, rose to his feet to wonder whether life in the Yard had changed much since...
...fighters scramble to uncoil hose lines and position aerial platforms, a slight figure tightly wrapped in a flame-resistant fire fighter's coat steps carefully through the debris in open-toed shoes. Above the roar of high-pressure pumps, she quizzes battalion commanders and cranes her neck to assess the fire fighters' progress. Finally satisfied that the damage will be contained, Mayor Dianne Feinstein heads back...
Because of its efficiency, a wireless computer could assess a variety of factors in volved in guiding missiles such as computing launch angles far more easily than current technology, scientist...