Word: ascertains
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...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...
...saying that the knowledge presented in these courses is unimportant or that the courses should not be in the Core. What I am saying is that without a board knowledge of American history, the proper context is impossible to ascertain. Historical Study A-42 Will give you the history of Russia and Historical Study A-72 will give you the history of Western Europe, but you can search far and wide through the entire Core and never find a history of the United States...