Word: tested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure of himself, Brokaw was the star of the evening. But this too is television. The twelve candidates were disadvantaged by their numbers. Brokaw put them through the hoop, cutting them off on cue, egging them on to criticize one another. Trial by sound bite -- surely a poor test of presidential capacity...
Despite its encouraging intentions, the real test for the panel will come in the next six months, as it makes its final recommendations. Many wonder if the commission's plea for solid data about the extent of the epidemic conceals a resolve to broaden mandatory testing. Last week prospective immigrants to the $ U.S. joined military personnel, blood donors and other groups now required to submit to AIDS testing. The commission tabled discussion on AIDS education until February in spite of widespread agreement among health professionals that educational programs are the most effective way to combat the disease. The panel...
...President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev begin to hash out the final details in Washington this week, representatives from several area disarmament organizations, including the Coalition for Nuclear Test Ban, Mobility for Survival, and Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility appeared in force at this candlelight vigil and march for peace...
...also the U.S. Army. Majer started his military efforts in 1982 with an eight-week, $50,000 training program at Fort Hood in Texas. Traditional calisthenics were replaced by a holistic stretching-warm-up-aerobics-cool-down routine. Soldiers practiced visualizing their combat tasks. The results in training test scores were apparently so good that the Army expanded SportsMind's assignment into a yearlong, $350,000 program to help train Green Berets. "They wanted the most far-ranging human- performance program we could deliver," Majer says...
...willing to listen? No one is blessed with the intellectual and experiential range to handle all the demands of the presidency, so an important litmus test is the willingness to solicit and absorb good advice...