Assess the following as probably true, as probably false, as requiring further documentation before judgment, or as a claim that cannot properly be evaluated. Consider both the nature of the claim and the source."Driven by the Gramm-Rudman mandate to cut $46 billion from the budget..., OMB director James Miller is proposing to sell off whole programs and agencies from the federal establishment. Miller's hit list is mostly secret for the time being, but administration sources say it includes some large, costly and much-venerated legacies of the Democratic past. One example: the Bonneville Power Administration, which provides low-cost electricity to the Pacific Northwest from a far-flung system of hydroelectric dams and substations, including the Grand Coulee Dam."-Newsweek (during the
Reagan administration in the late 1980s)
What will be an ideal response?
Probably true, since we would expect Newsweek to have good Washington sources in such matters. But notice: What is it that's probably true? The claim itself is quite vague. What does "proposing" mean, for example?
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