Word: assessments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They enter the Canyon with no notion of what they are to do for the summer. Phillips Brooks House has promised to pay for their maintenance while they "assess community needs" and develop projects to "mobilize community interest...
...week's end the rains subsided, and city officials could at last assess the damage. They had already counted 214 dead and 2,000 injured. More victims would be found as digging continued at the worst-hit favelas...
...heart of the Harvard Policy Committee's Department Audit Plan is the provision that calls for the HPC to study and report on each department every four years. According to the present guidelines, the reports will assess strengths and weaknesses of the departments and evaluate individual courses and instructors. If the situation warrants, the HPC will recommend specific changes, such as the addition of new middle-level courses, possible reforms in tutorials or examinations, or perhaps even shifts in concentration requirements...
...conference had to be postponed because of the flaring civil war in the Dominican Republic. Now at last 800 delegates from 19 nations converged on Rio's ancient Hotel Gloria for the Second Special Inter-American Conference of the Organization of American States. The object was to assess the role of the 17-year-old OAS in a rapidly changing hemisphere. And that was something that badly needed doing. "There are several Pandora's boxes here," said an OAS official, "any one of which contains vast numbers of insects...
What Pearson and so many others failed to assess properly was Canada's weariness over so many elections, and its growing impatience with the two aging contenders-Pearson, 68, and Diefenbaker, 70-who have now faced each other four times in a row. As one observer put it: "Two dreary old men nobody wants-two character actors still making farewell tours in the sticks long after the public has retired them...