Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to assess just what effect, if any, the Harvard crew had on the U.S. team or on the American public. One less committed oarsman commented, "The leaders had an inflated idea of their own importance. I don't think there were any significant effects of our stand...
Over plates of fried chicken, some reporters who had been traveling with Wallace talked about the campaign. They felt a little confused by what they had seen: the sources and meaning of Wallace's northern support were hard to assess, and they agreed that what they needed was to spend a little time in some northern cities in advance of a Wallace visit, talking to workers and union people, trying to find out what Wallace's "good folks" really have on their minds. But that means leaving Wallace himself for a few days, and this poses a problem...
...strong and consistent lobby for progressive government during the Nixon Administration. Already, one major feature of the Nixon platform--the decentralizing "black power" approach to the ghettoes--traces back to a paper prepared by a Ripon member at the Institute of Politics at Harvard. But it is difficult to assess the real meaning of his plan as Nixon expounds it--or the importance the candidate genuinely attaches to it in a year when every presidential aspirant is required to produce some kind of "solution" for the ghetto. Thus the Republican liberals have not yet scored any solid victories for their...
Last week, after seemingly endless legal manuevers, the case finally reached a significant new stage. In a 3 23 -page report, former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the "special master" appointed by a New York district court to assess the amount of the damages, accepted most of TWA's claims that Hughes' procrastination in securing jets for the airline had severely crippled its ability to compete in the early 1960s. Brownell set the sum that Hughes should pay TWA at $137.6 million. His report will now go to Federal Judge Charles Metzner, who is expected to in corporate...
...starvation to fighting as an offensive weapon anyway.) At the same time, Ojukwu is equally willing to let his fellow Biafrans starve, unless he can get food on his own terms. It is a chilling standoff, and one in which it is both dangerous and difficult for outsiders to assess blame...