Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Organizers say the last of the group's plans is a support group. The organizers want to ascertain that there is sufficient interest in the community the "informal" group to be meaningful says Breyer...
...speaks very broadly, original intent is relevant if you can ascertain it. It's perfectly clear that the Founding Fathers believed in free speech and freedom of religion. But when you get right down to specifics, it was impossible for the Founding Fathers to anticipate the developments of civilization. So I don't think one gains anything by saying original intent controls. Whether they were endowed with unique wisdom or very good luck -- or both -- the Founding Fathers blessed us with a Constitution that is brief and broadly phrased...
...loans funneled to Iraq through the local branch of the Rome-based Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Although the individual credits themselves were not forbidden, their sum total violated state and federal banking regulations, as well as those of the home bank in Italy. Federal investigators are reportedly trying to ascertain if BNL Atlanta extended a credit to a British-based company accused of trying to procure for Iraq elements of a triggering device for an atom bomb, a transaction uncovered by a joint U.S.-British sting operation last March...
Government professors study politics and representation. When graduate students choose not to teach in Government, they hold meetings to ascertain public opinion and to redress grievances...
...liberal argument for tolerance at Harvard has denegrated beyond the easygoing belief that, because it is impossible to ascertain any universal standard, all points of view are equal (hence none really worth passionate argument, deep analysis or stalwart defense), into the strident assertion that anyone who argues for the superiority of a distinctive moral insight or way of life is elitist or anti-democratic--and therefore immoral. One must not simply accept another's lifestyle, but celebrate it as just as valid as one's own. Or be branded a bigot...