Word: assessing
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Syria's poor military showing has proved an acute embarrassment to the Kremlin. A high-level Soviet military mission traveled to Syria last month to assess fully the damage to Soviet-built weapons systems. In an unusual move, the official Soviet news agency TASS declared that all rumors that Soviet military equipment was inferior to the American-made arms in Israel's arsenal were "deliberately false" and a form of psychological warfare. Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin went out of his way to explain in a television broadcast that "more than 100 Israeli tanks were knocked...
...past decade has been a major step for ward for women, but it is only one step in a long march." In the course of the '80s, TIME'S men and women will continue to report on and assess that historic march...
...truly insane may be unaware they are committing a capital offense. More frequently their disturbed mental conditions leave them with no apparent control over their actions. Whether John Hinckley was sufficiently mad as not to know or control what he did last March 30 is for experts to assess and for juries to decide, advised by those specialists in how people's minds work...
...assess the current state of Soviet-American affairs, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had a two-hour interview in Moscow last week with Leonid Zamyatin, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and Brezhnev's principal spokesman. Zamyatin harshly and predictably attacked U.S. policy in the Middle East, criticized Reagan's position on strategic arms negotiations and decried the use offeree - as if the Soviets did not use it when it suited them. But in addition to the familiar Soviet positions, Zamyatin also sent a number of potentially hopeful signals. He indicated that...
...argument surrounding the tests, then, seems to boil down to whether colleges should assess preparedness or try to compensate for possibly culturally biased tests. "If you want to know whether someone's qualified in chemistry," says Whitla, "you give him a chem exam." "If the color of your eyes will help me" decide between applicants here, says Peter H. Richardson, MIT's director of admissions, "then I'll take it on the color of your eyes...