Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent a note to Genscher assuring him that he was "outraged" at any implication that the West German was susceptible to Soviet pressure. The fact is, however, that Pipes' views coincide with those of the Administration in most respects. He headed the 1976 "Team B" task force to assess Soviet strategy, which argued that Soviet leaders are pursuing a course of nuclear superiority. The Administration's many voices are all reinforcing the same tough anti-Soviet line...
...home owners and $4,000 for renters) to help defray resettlement costs. According to Emmett Moten, Detroit's industrial development director, the city is also purchasing federally owned housing units for Poletowners and offering them mortgages at a bargain 9.5% interest. Detroit hired a professional gerontologist to help assess the impact of the move on the elderly, who make up about half of those to be displaced. So far, 1,154 property owners -about 90% of those affected-have voluntarily sold out to the city. Says Moten of the opposition: "How many mass meetings have been held? Where...
...came to the U.S. from his native Poland as a teenager, is a critic of Kissinger's policy of detente, which he said represented a "perilous extreme [of] complete relaxation." Pipes headed "Team B," an outside task force appointed by then CIA Director George Bush to assess Soviet military strength...
...story on President Reagan's sweeping economic proposals, TIME correspondents fanned out across the country to test the mood of citizens about the proposed budget cuts. The goal: to look at some of the programs most affected, examine what they had been achieving at the local level and assess how much they might be missed. Says National Editor John Elson, who edited the story: "We found a wide range of responses, including some that were not anticipated by the Administration. It is already clear that Reagan is going after a whole herd of sacred cows. The battle brewing...
...committee reviewing the graduate program in Fine Arts will recommend changes in the program's sequence and assess its curriculum in a report it expects to submit to the department of Fine Arts in April...