Word: reassessing
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...could have foreseen such spectacular progress," says McAllister. For months, however, the United States has been quietly pressing the two countries to open up to each other a bit, and that diplomacy, combined with the sobering possibility of nuclear disaster, may have impressed the two traditional enemies to reassess how they deal with each other. "The biggest fear on the subcontinent," says McAllister, "has always been the hair-trigger nature of the enmity between India and Pakistan: The smallest slight always held the potential to escalate into all-out war." Now, he says, the two countries seem to have "loosened...
...good time to ask this question, as the office of Dean of Undergraduate Education William Mills Todd III is currently reviewing, with individual departments, how Advanced Placement (A.P.) test scores could and should be used. But this type of review will simply reassess the "worth" of individual A.P. courses (a score of 4 or 5 on the United States history exam, for example, now counts for one full credit; four such scores would count for one year's worth of study); it will not reconsider the worth of the Advanced Standing program as a whole--a review which...
...soon as the Federal Bureau of Insinuation let loose its lurid 1,300-page scandal sheet on Frank Sinatra last week, an anxious populace began asking itself the agonizing question: "Does this mean I have to reassess my position on the legendary swinging blue-eyed crooner from Hoboken, N.J., who embodied popular music and indeed pop culture in the latter half of the 20th century while swaggering about obnoxiously with his dissolute lackeys, or can I just bag it and catch a few hours of sleep and then go to work in the morning just as if nothing earthshaking...
...female, a "Cradle Catholic" and ineligible for the priesthood. I believe that when the dust eventually settles on the issue of female ordination, the church will need to publicly reassess its treatment of women, as it has done for so many other shameful episodes in its history: the Inquisition, Galileo and its conduct during World War II. As for the Vatican official quoted in your article who said, "Some of these women are well intentioned, but the bulk of them are power-hungry witches," someone needs to tell him that using witch as a derogatory term for women perceived...
...Kofi Annan?s deal rescued the U.S. from a difficult situation, Dowell believes. ?He won us some breathing space in which to reassess what we want to do.? With even the policy of "containment" of Saddam via sanctions being increasingly called into question, the State Department's Iraq wonks face some heavy lifting in the weeks ahead...