Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such questioning deserves more rebuttal than the usual cracks about 20/20 hindsight. Journalists aren't expected to anticipate train wrecks or assassinations. But a simple test of their performance is: Are readers or listeners taken by surprise by events that were foreseeable? The Iran coverage meets this test favorably, in that any well-informed reader for the past year has been told all about riots, corruption, torture and discontent. The press, however, can be faulted, particularly in the earlier stages, for describing the opposition, in the simplicity of news bulletins and snippet coverage on TV, as "an unlikely coalition...
...word is going to be passed around to high schools," he added, and entering freshmen may soon learn to prepare for the test in advance...
...President was particularly eager to hold the line on the oilworkers agreement because, as the first settlement under the guideposts, it may also set a pattern for this year's heavy calendar of labor talks. The Teamsters, whose contract expires March 31, will provide the next big test. Though they are expected to put up a tougher fight than the OCAW, the oil settlement is bound to have some restraining influence...
...activities at such centers are aimed more at strengthening the cardiovascular system than building muscles. After having their medical history reviewed, taking a series of tests (including a treadmill "stress test"), and having body fat measured, participants are given a set of individual goals. Clients are carefully monitored as they go through their paces...
...study, Estroff joined 43 deinstitutionalized patients under a Madison, Wis., team led by Psychiatrist Leonard "itein and Psychologist Mary Ann Test at he Mendota Mental Health Institute. The ground rules she established put her in what she called a "triangular" position with both sides. But in fact she was closer to the patients, pledging to guard their confidences while sitting in on staff sessions. Almost immediately, even trivial questions became moral quagmires. Should she tell patients that she had gone to a staff party? (She didn't.) Should she let the doctors know when she had information they...