Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...speak so somberly and critically on this occasion, but I feel I must. Your years at Harvard have been among the most tormented that have ever beset institutions of higher learning in this country. The effect of these years on each of you is something which only you can assess. Probably it will become clear with the passing of time. But troubled as the years have been I cannot believe-at least I do not want to believe-the effect will prove to have been wholly negative...
...shortcomings of the world, and of ourselves, on scapegoats-even to light fires or throw stones-for personal relief or for exploitation-easy and totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. to refuse to become frustrated and angry: to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair: and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those who have come truly...
...them help the dehired executive to size up the job market, select companies that might use his services, prepare résumés and develop contacts. THinc. and North also provide extensive personal counseling aimed at getting the executive to assess realistically his strengths and weaknesses and, most important, to rebuild his confidence...
...nearby villa. Cabinet ministers, aides, politicians and Republican candidates churn in and out of the small city (pop. 17,000) as the business of state continues. Nixon's changes of scene, of course, inevitably alter San Clemente's own scene for both good and ill. To assess the changes, TIME Correspondents Simmons Fentress and Timothy Tyler collaborated on this report...
...that ads create the mood for drug taking, J.N. Cooke, chief of the Proprietary Association, a trade group of manufacturers of over-the-counter drugs, says that some "hard sell" ads may have lent credibility to the charge. His organization is reviewing the ads of all member firms to assess their influence on drug abuse. Proprietary drug producers, who last year spent about $118 million in advertising 48 brands of headache, tension and drowsiness remedies, are slowly moving to soften their messages. Jeffrey Martin Inc.. manufacturer of Compoz, "the little blue pill'' sedative, has tacked a caveat...