Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aircraft rolled drunkenly from side to side, off-duty United Captain Dennis Fitch rushed to the cockpit to help Haynes and First Officer William Records, getting down on his knees to gingerly manipulate the throttles. Second Officer Dudley Dvorak walked to the back of the plane, trying to assess the damage. Haynes told controllers he could only make wide turns to the right and was worried about whether he could reach the airport. Alerted to the emergency, the tower at Sioux City informed local police and rescue units to prepare for either a crash landing on the runway...
...monetary costs are easy to figure: $25 billion for the Apollo program, more than $35 billion for the fleet of four space shuttles. Not so easy to assess are the benefits that we have gained by sending people into space...
...some extent. We fully understand that a new Administration needs a certain amount of time to assess its foreign policy priorities. But I will be able to give a fuller answer after my talks with Secretary of State James Baker. We have to begin working together. There are quite a few problems...
...Edward Surette Jr., executive director of the Bay State Gasoline Retailers Association in Billerica, Mass., said his group surveyed dealers yesterday but found that it was too early to assess the impact of the boycott...
...said he went to Armenia this month to assess the devastation at the invitation of Yerevan's vice-mayor, Babken Vardanyan, the head of the delegation that visited Cambridge...