Word: ascertained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Daiwa said it needed time to ascertain facts before informing the authorities, some Wall Street experts said the delay looked suspicious and improper. "That is not acceptable behavior in our view," says Heinz Binggeli, managing director of Emcor Risk Management, a consulting firm. "You don't let two months pass before you shut down the operation." Says the chief government-bond trader for a large Wall Street firm: "This went on undetected for 11 years? Come on, who's kidding whom? It's a joke...
...addition to chairing the discussions and deliberations of the committee, Hope says, Slichter oversaw hundreds of interviews with students, faculty, alumni and staff that allowed the committee to ascertain a direction for Harvard...
...vote, however, was far from unanimous. As it was a voice vote, it was hard to ascertain what percentage of the faculty voted against the measure...
...social background to the witnesses and defendants than the judges are. Though Posner is himself one of the greatest legal minds around, he admits that he is often less able to judge the reliability of a witness than the jurors are. It is difficult to understand how he can ascertain that a jury's collective intuition is better than his own without appealing to some sort of God's-eye viewpoint, but let us put aside such concerns and continue with his argument. Therefore, he asks, might not these juries be better judges of character than the judge himself...
...students and books; they would protest if the plan were to damage either. The staff assumes that not enough resources are being devoted to this problem, that with more money a better solution could be found. It has no evidence of this and has made no attempt to ascertain this...