Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...influence-peddling by the Bonanno family, has received no disciplinary action of any kind. Judge Craig's sudden reversal of Bonanno's conviction aroused suspicions because it occurred fully a month after the guilty verdict was handed down, and because the judge failed to poll the jury first to ascertain its reasons for conviction before issuing his reversal. However, Craig has since been promoted to Chief Judge of Arizona's district court. "Everybody here just laughed about the IRE story," Craig said last month...
...help the nonhuman population of Mauritius and neighboring islands. Durrell's adventures have an engaging lunacy that relieves their underlying tension. He and his party risked bites from golden fruit bats that objected to the indignity of having their private parts probed so their would-be saviors could ascertain their sex. They suffered seasickness and sunstroke to capture rare lizards. But to capture the cyclamen-colored Mauritian pink pigeon, all the rescuers risked was a fall from a tree. The birds proved so suicidally stupid that they merely watched, heads cocked with curiosity, as a Mauritian soldier the size...
...Suzman, a critic of both Kruger and the administration, called for the police minister's resignation. Kruger brushed this aside. He scheduled a formal inquest into Tabalaza's death, at which Tabalaza's family can be present. In addition, said Kruger, "as far as I can ascertain, the police are putting bars on those windows right...
...Senate's approval of the Panama Canal neutrality treaty was, in spite of the "reservations," a step in the right direction [March 27]. Arguments both for and against the treaties are sound. However, it merely requires simple logic to ascertain that while ratification of these treaties will not necessarily guarantee perpetual euphoria, failure to do so can only induce grim repercussions. Panama is a time bomb that the Senate must defuse with caution, by approving the resolution of ratification...
...George B. Hutchison '43, professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, said yesterday, "It is necessary to ascertain whether the effects of low-level exposure cause cancer...