Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state and municipal elections; e.g., in Kerala, where the Communists recently scored their first major Indian victory (TIME, April 1), and in last week's municipal elections in Bombay, where the Congress Party was defeated for the first time in 19 years because apathetic party hacks failed to assess the genuineness of the popular drive for a separate, Marathi-speaking Bombay state. The candidate who piled up the largest number of votes in Bombay: Communist Leader S. A. Dange...
...long as it condones your proven unsound monetary politics and your New Deal-inspired international WPA . . ." In New Hampshire, the reactionary Republican Manchester Union Leader editorially called the President of the U.S. a "stinking hypocrite" (see PRESS) . . . In Colorado, G.O.P. State Chairman Edgar Elliff, asked by a newsman to assess the Eisenhower popularity, replied scornfully: "Which Eisenhower do you mean-Dwight or Edgar?" . . . And with the smiling approval of other Republican Senate bigwigs, Minority Leader William Knowland baited the Republican President by regularly upping the amount by which he thought the Eisenhower budget should be cut (Bill's latest...
When the storm had spent itself, farmers and ranchers tried to assess the results. With the bad, there was good. Dodge City, Kans. soaked up 2.48 in. of precipitation, Amarillo got 1.45 in., Omaha...
Tutorial for credit and course reduction offer gradeless, relatively independent study for some students. The line between between them is vague, and it is difficult to assess the extent to which tutorial for credit suceeds when it is anything besides a thesis course. Not too many students avail themselves of this privilege, and it is not vigorously pushed by many departments...
...announced the White House at week's end, President Eisenhower will begin a threeday, seven-stop flying tour through the worst-hit of the drought areas, the skeleton-dry southern Plains states, to assess for himself the extent of the damage. In Wichita, Kans., Ike plans to join a specially convened meeting of farm, business and local government representatives to discuss possible improvements in the Government's already extensive relief program. No matter how high the new totals may go, ultimate relief can come only from a source uncontrolled by man: the saving beneficence of drenching rain...