Word: ascertain
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...members of these pairs cannot both be true at all times for all social relationships. Social scientists working together in the areas of romantic love and friendship formation are trying to ascertain the specific situations under which these general and vague principles hold...
...know how this can be solved. I respect the universities feeling that they don't want the long sticky finger of government probing into their files, yet on the other hand we do need some sort of tool whereby to ascertain whether or not there has been discrimination in individual cases and on the large scale...
...institutions or to investigate claims of discrimination. They base their right to see the files on a section of the executive order stating that the contractor must agree in writing to "permit access to his books, records and accounts" during normal business hours for "purposes of investigation to ascertain compliance with the equal opportunity clause...
...ascertain who is to pay for installing and maintaining roads and sewers, whether roads will be surfaced and where the water supply will come from...
...role of social and economic factors in molding working-class "authoritarianism", and then avoiding its wrath, is of great importance to us here. It is necessary to ascertain what makes Communism such a "highly visible" target for hate-filled attacks; some outside stimulus must be present that those low in SES should focus to such a great extent their "confusion and outrage" on Communism...