Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James O. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, has been attempting to ascertain Kissinger's future plans ever since the Nixon landslide, Kissinger resigned his position as professor of Government in 1971, but the post has remained open according to the terms of an agreement reached at that time between Kissinger and the Department...
...Department promised to refrain from filling the post until the end of Nixon's first term. James Q. Wilson chairman of the Department, met last week with Kissinger in what he described as an attempt to ascertain the national security adviser's future plans...
...internist, believes the physician definitely should not dismiss the complaint as imaginary. Instead, he should try "reassurance therapy," and in the Annals of Internal Medicine Sapira tells how to administer it. The first step, he says, is to elicit a detailed description of the symptoms; the next is to ascertain how they affect or concern the patient...
...members of these pairs cannot both be true at all times for all social relationships. Social scientists working together in the areas of romantic love and friendship formation are trying to ascertain the specific situations under which these general and vague principles hold...
...know how this can be solved. I respect the universities feeling that they don't want the long sticky finger of government probing into their files, yet on the other hand we do need some sort of tool whereby to ascertain whether or not there has been discrimination in individual cases and on the large scale...