Word: ascertained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Death guerrillas and non-combatents alike. Accurate casualty figures are impossible to come by, but informed sources place the death toll at close to 500,000. Nine million refuges have fled across the border to India, while the number of homeless within Bangla Desh is astronomical but impossible to ascertain. As the food supply runs out in Bangla Desh, the increasing prospects of widespread famine ominously signify that Pakistan may yet replace Hitler's Germany as an archtype of 20th century genocide. But as the killing procedes with cold monotonous regularity, the eyes of the rest of the world...
...largest share is slated for compulsory treatment and rehabilitation of addicted Viet Nam veterans. What Nixon proposed, and quickly put into effect last weekend at Cam Ranh Bay and Long Binh, is a program that will subject all G.I.s to urine tests before they return to the U.S. to ascertain whether they have been using heroin or amphetamines. Those found to be on drugs will be given a week of detoxification before they are sent home. If Congress approves, they will also receive an additional three weeks of mandatory therapy in the U.S. at Veterans Administration facilities...