Word: assess
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Soberest reaction came from Harold Stassen, who announced that a group of eight distinguished soldiers and experts has been called to assess the implications of the Russian gambit. The advisory group would also try to find an answer for Russia's expected demand that the West match their reductions. To that expected challenge, Dulles recently provided a short answer in the form of an anecdote: A fat man and a thin man agreed to go on a diet; the fat man got healthier, the thin man starved to death...
...House Ways and Means Committee, in approving a money-raising section of the vast road construction program, voted to assess highway users nearly $14 billion in new taxes over the next 16 years. Among the committee recommendations: a 1? hike in the present 2?-per-gallon gasoline and diesel fuel tax; a 3?-per-lb. increase in the present 5?-per-lb. tire tax; a 2% increase in the tax on the sales price of trucks, buses and trailers; a new annual tax of $1.50 per 1,000 lbs. on trucks weighing more than...
Other committees--some of which include students as regular members --assess the key functions of the Institute. Professors and instructors in each of M.I.T.'s five schools--Architecture and Planning Science, Humanities and Social Studies, Engineering, and Industrial Management--regularly consult to decide curriculum policy...
...shriekers and long, ecstatic moaners, as he drags out tormentedly "a favourite of my Morn and Dad's," are clearly getting a separate satisfaction out of their own behaviour. In fact so much of the performance is contributed from the auditorium that it is as hard to assess its merits as it is to explain its success. On the last score, the ostentatiously worn deaf aid should not perhaps be overlooked. It hints at a frailty bravely overcome, and stirs all kinds of half-realized compassions, particularly in those who forget that deaf aids can be had in much...
...Plumbing. The signatures were scarcely dry before the West's capitals resounded with the confused sound of pundits trying to assess loss or gain. But the Moscow meeting was not the kind that produces the means of any immediate measurement. An exchange of diplomatic relations represents in itself just a bit of plumbing, its value to be determined by what flows through it. The effect of the prisoners' release will depend first on whether they get home, and perhaps to a great extent on the stories they tell of others who died or remain behind. The conference...