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However, the panel decided not to ascertain whether personal animosity or other criteria led to the faculty's decision because it believed "this task would be, as a practical matter, impossible...
...East Hampton tried to have them evicted from Grey Gardens on the grounds-richly demonstrated in the film - that the house is a menace to health. The Beales fought a well-publicized battle and stayed, although this fight is not the subject of the film. It is difficult to ascertain what the subject of the film really is, or the reason it was made. The Maysles brothers have al ways been inveterate seekers after the phantom of documentary "truth." This quest has been hampered by the peculiar insularity of their vision and by its glib spontaneity. In Grey Gardens they...
...Harvard apparently has yet to begin its investigation, or even to ascertain just who should conduct such an inquiry. And Holcombe is getting restless...
Marshall said because students with good academic standing do not need to specify why they are taking leaves, it is difficult to ascertain why more students are taking leaves...
Announced Dublin's Minister of Justice Patrick Cooney: "Such demands have to be resisted. The best protection against such kidnaping is to let the people who carry them out ascertain that they are quite futile exercises." Nonetheless, a Dutch representative of Herrema's firm was ready to pay an undisclosed sum as ransom and fly the kidnapers out of Ireland. Even if the terrorists were to give up on the release of Dugdale and the other prisoners, the government would have to agree to give the kidnapers safe passage abroad...