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AFTER carefully investigating the boy's background, Honda decides to adopt him, convinced that this is his friend born still again. But lingering doubts remain: He is unable to ascertain the date of the princess's death, and fears that the boy may have been born too early...
Arcand said each steam meter in the tunnels will cost between $1000 and $2000 to replace if damages to them are irreparable. It is still too early to ascertain how many meters are damaged, he said...
...Marcus' avowed aims is to apply the formal techniques of textual analysis to Engels' Condition of the Working Class, "to ascertain how far Literary criticism can help us understand history and society." The answer seems to be not very far at all. The half of his book that analyzes Engels' writing bogs down in the sort of overexplication of the obvious that has so often given literary criticism a bad name...
...adroitly did Wilson draft the speech that Heath was limited to criticizing the vagueness of the language. "It requires a consistent probing to ascertain what lies behind so much of its wording," he complained, adding that he could not judge it without "knowledge of the government's financial policies." Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe expressed delight that Labor had already "shed some of their unmentionables"-such as nationalization...
...environment which they can only perceive as hostile. They are isolated, surrounded by antagonistic people and forces. They find their landlord, the CHA, unresponsive and incompetent. They claim that a contractor hired by CHA to landscape the project had put up dead trees, and that attempts to ascertain the contractor's identity were rebuffed...