Word: ascertainable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound nostalgic for the cold war, but it did make reading international news a lot easier. During the cold war, when ethnic or tribal conflicts popped up in countries you didn't know from chopped liver, there was no need to go through the laborious task of trying to ascertain which side was marginally less beastly than its adversary. Whichever side the Red Menace was for we were against. Simple as that. And consider this: during the cold war, the meltdown of the Russian ruble would have been treated as good news...
...There was no debate so far as I could ascertain as to who their spokesman was to be--Miss Hillary Rodham," said Ruth M. Adams, then-president of Wellesley College, in a prelude to Clinton's speech...
...recreate the night of March 28, 1998. Three individuals are throwing rocks off of the roof of 128 Mass. Ave., endangering the lives of pedestrians passing by the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton Street. Harvard police approach the scene of the crime but quickly ascertain they will need to call in the fire department for a ladder to reach the roof of the club...
...students in the court of public opinion. A different issue would have been presented had the safety of the community been at stake, but with Mr. Elster under arrest there was no question of public safety. (We had also done our best, before charges had been pressed, to ascertain that Mr. Elster was not a community danger--though our freedom of legal operation during that interval would have been very limited...
Critics contend, however, that with a little basic research, buyers like Searle and his Art Institute advisers can readily ascertain a work of art's true origins. In many cases, dealers known to have bought or sold art for the Nazis turn up in a work's chain of custody, a red flag signaling a potentially looted object. In the case of Searle's Degas, German dealer Hans Wendland, who operated all but openly as a fence disposing of the Nazi trove, apparently transferred the painting during the war. "It's just obvious that people buying art need...