Word: ascertained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...needed action was political as much as financial, and Beame had already proved himself a likable but inadequate representative of the old clubhouse politics. A former city controller, he juggled figures with such dexterity that almost nobody could ascertain exactly what was available to pay what deficits. When the banks demanded specific cost-cutting measures as the price of further investments, Beame waffled and wavered and cried that the city was being degraded. His own board of estimate held at least two strategy meetings without even telling Beame, and when he heard about them, he could only protest, "What...
Though almost everyone was tuned in to the televised spectacular, it was difficult to ascertain how many were really turned on by the mission. One woman who had ventured into the big GUM department store near Red Square at launch time to buy a TV set grumbled that the crowds kept her from the sales counter. Asked what he thought of Soyuz's successful liftoff, a stroller along Gorky Street replied: "Oh, has it all started?" A man absorbed in a chess game in a nearby park was just as blasé. "Chess is more difficult," he shrugged...