Word: ascertained
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...since 2004. A report from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law pointed out a case where a Mississippi voting official accidentally erased the records of ten thousand voters from her home computer. Whether political motivation was involved or not is difficult to ascertain, mostly because standards are so unclear...
...makes the book readable, since few of us really want to muddle through an in-depth analysis of the master-slave dialectic or production functions, it ultimately limits the persuasive power of Stoll’s argument. Indeed, the disjointed nature of the book often makes it difficult to ascertain what exactly Stoll’s argument is. He doesn’t quite engage us in a criticism of overconsumption or materialism, nor does he really champion the need for environmental sustainability. Stoll offers us mostly platitudes, empty truisms about the unnecessary excess of our commercial world...
...securities are worth. The government will hire experts to determine their value, but because so many are "sliced and diced" concoctions - made up of pieces of literally thousands of mortgages created and peddled and pushed together by Wall Street - the soundness of the underlying loans will prove difficult to ascertain. Many members of Congress want to make sure the government pays fire-sale prices for the assets to protect taxpayers from a big loss, but Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has said that too low a price could hamper the plan's effectiveness at stabilizing the markets...
...best ways to try to figure out what will happen in the future is to ascertain what happened in the past. That's why we're in Greenland. Our team will be visiting the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project, an international research team that has staked out a corner of the island's ice sheet and will, as the name suggests, drill. The ice in central Greenland is nearly 3 km thick, and as you drill down to the bottom, you can read the climatic history of the island as if you were counting tree rings going back...
...Harvard’s current system and the ongoing effort to address these problems.“These are all things we have been working on this year,” Client Technology Adviser Noah S. Selsby ’94 said. “We are trying to ascertain not only what the students want, but what is going to meet all the requirements technologically.”FAS IT released the results to its annual undergraduate survey last week that showed an increasingly widespread use of Gmail and Thunderbird forwarding services and a dissatisfaction with the FAS Webmail...