Word: deem
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...Despite these minor setbacks, most council members deem Gusmorino's first term a triumph and predict great things for his next--and he'll have help...
...technologies like brighter lightbulbs and improved insulation offer the chance to reduce energy use without sacrificing convenience. And these gains could be significant: If the U.S. government (the country’s largest energy consumer) cut its own power consumption by one-fifth, as the energy department scientists deem it could do at a cost of $5 billion, it could save $1 billion in energy per year and pay off the initial investment in only five years...
...students at Harvard frequently do not get their health information from sources that they themselves consider believable. While television falls at the very bottom of believability, about a third of students get their health information from TV-more than the 28.9 percent of students receiving information from what students deem the most believable source, college health educators...
...failure to stand by the publishing of an individual's opinion undermines your reputation ("To Our Readers," March 20). Since the article was a personal account, it in no way reflected your official views, and while Fong's statements may have been offensive, that does not by any means deem them inappropriate for publication...
...Even if it represents something of a p.r. nightmare to the drug companies, the trial concerns a principle they deem sacrosanct - that in the market economics of the pharmaceutical industry, profit remains the only incentive for the development of new cures. It's a compelling argument, of course, within its own logic (even though its critics like to point out that some of the AIDS drugs, such as protease inhibitors, were originally developed in taxpayer-funded institutions). But it's difficult to fault the drug companies for behaving according to corporate logic, which is based, above all else...