Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of interviews Frith conducted with youths in a small English industrial town proves especially thought-provoking. One student's ascertain that "I like what I like, no one changes my opinion about music" illustrates the peculiar resilience of rock and roll that Frith strives to demonstrate...
None of this, of course, is original; startling and fresh is Posner's belief that the exchange of gifts also provided a way for one clan or person to ascertain the reliability as a trading partner of another. This concept is central to the author's argument that information and the need for knowledge of the dependability of a transaction partner explain both privacy laws and racial prejudice...
Saturday, the first annual United States Grand Prix of Las Vegas will be run on a specially-constructed, 2.2-mile circuit that will be torn down immediately following the event. "The prize money is hard to ascertain because it is all handled through FICA," says Larry Aldenhoevel of Caeser's Palace, the Las Vegas hotel sponsoring the event. "but I do know that the man who wins is in for a lot of money...
...sagging trouser pockets and pulled out a kitchen match," he writes of his first encounter, at age 14, with an unclad female in a dark room. "I struck it on my shoe and, when the flame flared, I held it high up between Tessie's thighs to ascertain the what and the where. For no reason whatever, the girl popped straight up in the air screaming." He barely graduated from the eighth grade and was fired from every job his father got him until, at 21. he became a copy boy at the New York Daily News. He fell...
...oblivious to the realities of Duarte's policy in dealing with dissidents, President Reagan has instead expressed horror at Soviet support of El Salvador's casualty-ridden guerrilla forces. Rather than reevaluating U.S. policy toward the Central American nation in order to ascertain if it is indeed important enough to turn into the next battlefield of Soviet and U.S. warfare, the Reagan administration is currently deliberating just how much the United States should escalate its aid. The answer is, of course, that the United States should cease all military funding to Duarte's repressive regime. But Reagan's withdrawal...