Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public to judge? Was it theater, with the public as critics to assess the sincerity of his performance? Was it a confessional, with the public providing absolution? Or was it a trial? If so, the unruly court of public opinion was being asked to judge from conflicting testimony and insufficient evidence...
...Communist-approved successor in Canton, Bishop Ye Yinyun, has continued to press the battle against the Vatican, accusing visiting priests from Hong Kong of efforts to "spread rumors and disrupt the work of the Chinese church." The new arrests mark an ominous escalation. Outside observers cannot yet assess how far the toughening government attitude will go. But many of those arrested are elderly, and friends fear they would not survive long prison sentences...
Since 1979, the University has charged "fair market rate" rents in all its housing and has not kept them artificially low for Harvard-affiliated tenants. Joe B. Wyatt, Vice president for administration and a member as the rent policy review committee, said yesterday that the only way to assess housing values is to use fair market rates and that the small amount of University housing available to affiliates makes managing subsidies very difficult...
...through the cell's bars. Again the loser had been unsuccessful: two days later Hinckley was in satisfactory condition in the base hospital, watching TV. But the possibility that he had suffered brain damage was not ruled out. Says a Justice Department spokesman: "It is too soon to assess if his mental abilities will be affected...
...team, netminder Janet Judge turned aside 16 Huskie drives in a truly gutsy effort. The statistics cannot record the effectiveness of Judge's kamikaze pounces on any ball in the area, executed while knowing full well that a sprinting forward might slide into her. Neither can they assess the value of her gravity-defying jumps to punch the ball out of the area and squelch a corner kick...