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...hope. So far NEPA has delayed construction but its usefulness is limited. Specialists in environmental law say that it is difficult to win a "second generation" NEPA case--a challenge of the federal government's final decision once it has met the "first generation" or procedural NEPA requirements to assess impact. Fortunately the Sierra Club's suit is based on other environmental laws that may allow the club's lawyers to delay the project indefinitely or even kill it entirely...
...impact of the Kennedy assassination on American politics in the 1960s and '70s is difficult to assess. Canfield and Weberman claim that things would have been very different had Kennedy lived: he would have kept us out of Vietnam, secured detente earlier, and inaugurated massive social welfare measures. This is difficult to swallow; the legislation of the Kennedy administration does not suggest real social reform, and while JFK might not have defended the American empire in Vietnam, there is no reason to suppose he had given up his Cold War policies and would not have defended it elsewhere...
Dean K. Whitla, the office's director, said yesterday that the study will assess the impact of undergradute education among students at Harvard...
Colt said he cannot yet assess the impact of the gift drop on the day-to-day operations of the University...
...made good' according to God's exact standards," Jesuit Writer Leonard Feeney once observed. Whatever God's standards, those of the Catholic Church are strict indeed. Vatican officials had sifted and sifted again through more than 3,000 letters and other writings by Mother Seton to assess her character and deeds...