Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...binding guidelines for drug advertising. In California, a bill was introduced last January to require every drug manufacturer advertising in the state to spend a quarter of its promotion budget on anti-drug education. The bill's sponsor, Assemblyman William Campbell, agreed to defer hearings until he could assess the results of a campaign against drug abuse that the Advertising Council is sponsoring...
There seems to be no question that the Arabs have suffered discrimination and abusive punishment under Tombalbaye's regime. Their claims have been documented by French Captain Pierre Galopin, sent to Chad in 1968 by the French government to assess Tombalbaye's policies...
There have been important economic and technological byproducts of the space program, but in the long run there is perhaps no entirely rational way in which to assess it. Such a project can only be viewed and approved -if approved at all-in inspirational terms. "The real reason for undertaking the space program," says one Apollo defender, Physicist Harold Urey, who is quoted in Journey to Tranquility, "is an innate characteristic of human beings, namely, some curious drive to try to do what might be thought to be impossible-to try to excel in one way or another." Urey compares...
...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...