"It is a universal assessment that his first year has been a success," Mr. Watson said.
But the concept of universal assessment got its biggest boost in 2006, from the findings of a commission appointed by Margaret Spellings, then the education secretary.
"Given the nearly universal assessment that Mr. Stumpf's Senate appearance was lackluster, sticking with the script may prove imprudent," Isaac Boltansky, an analyst at Compass Point Research & Trading, wrote in a note to clients after reading the prepared remarks.
"The nearly universal assessment among them," the authors write of the long-suffering Edwards aides, "was that there was no one on the national stage for whom the disparity between public image and private reality was vaster or more disturbing".
"The nearly universal assessment" among campaign aides, they wrote, "was that there was no one on the national stage for whom the disparity between public image and private reality was vaster or more disturbing".
She is a social researcher who presents her findings in the language of her field; she doesn't claim to have formed a universal assessment of human life.
Because a universal assessment of what it will take to succeed in any workplace applies to all job-seekers of this generation, and Friedman's column offers particular encouragement to those who fall short of the top grades or who attend less highly ranked colleges, or none at all.
Universal assessment of PND is becoming best practice in many countries around the world [ 3- 5].
A prescreening procedure that identifies tumors with a high likelihood of MMR deficiency could be clinically valuable for institutions that have not implemented universal assessment of MMR status.
