Word: ascertain
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Carter has also advocated making the hiring of illegal aliens illegal. But H.R. 9531, Carter's legislation, does not provide criminal penalties for hiring aliens, only fines And nothing in the legislation spells out just how the employer is to ascertain the status of his workers. Given the political clout of the employers and the weak provisions of the bill, it is highly unlikely that this proposal would affect the employment of illegal aliens...
...illegally from foreign countries. The code also forbids bankers to accept funds that they have reason to believe were acquired by acts punishable under Swiss law, such as fraud and trafficking in narcotics. However, the code does not require the banks to investigate the background of every customer to ascertain the origin of his money...
Archaeologists and paleontologists trying to ascertain the age of bone, wood and charcoal from ancient sites have long employed a technique called carbon-14 dating. This dating game has its drawbacks: it requires the destruction of a sizable portion of the sample and cannot, without costly and time-consuming treatment, determine the age of any object more than about 40,000 years old. But a new method promises to overcome both obstacles. A team of researchers from the University of Rochester, the University of Toronto and General lonex Corp. of Ipswich, Mass., is developing a way of dating objects that...
...suite of Yard freshmen conducted their own survey of freshmen to ascertain relative House popularities and then simulated the housing office's lottery procedure with their own computer program in order to plan their optimum course of action...
...four represents at best an inexcusable ignorance of student preferences for living conditions and at worst a conscious and paternalistic disregard for student and worker input in general. Fox and other administrators decided the breakfast issue as though from an ivory tower, making little effort to ascertain student opinion on the subject--and so chose an unimaginative plan that almost no one likes...