But even before its decision on United, the board's top priority has been determining whether an airline will be able to repay the loan.
Mr. Bloomberg's guide has been determining what is good for the city and the bottom line, and then doing it, sometimes unblinkingly taking on powerful interests.
Called the E-Commerce Standards Solutions Forum, the group has been determining how to standardize e-commerce practices and provide consumer protection.
A challenge for some educators has been determining what types of workers the companies need and when they will be needed.
One major focus of investigation has been determining the nutritional potential of various natural vegetation forms in terms of their use in livestock raising and wildlife management.
A central issue in the case for investigators has been determining which intermediaries were doing legitimate placement work and whether some were simply cronies or insiders who received fees but did no actual work.
24 NEW YORK/REGION 29-34 Final Death Toll Near In World Trade Center Attack From the earliest hours after the destruction of the World Trade Center, one of the most painful and complicated tasks has been determining precisely how many people died and exactly who they were.
The notion that harassed women can simply "go find another career" like picking up an extra bottle of bubbly at the supermarket is the thinking of a man who's had everything handed to him, who inherited a fortune as well as his father's business, and whose greatest existential threat in recent years has been determining how many millions and billions of dollars he's really worth.
Looking outside of its core markets, one the league's biggest challenges throughout the last two decades has been determining how to draw and sustain mainstream attention.
"Without any intervention by anyone working at Google, it means that Google's algorithm has been determining the outcome of close elections around the world".
A major question we've sought to address has been determining the genetic features and evolutionary processes that allow hybridizing species to persist, with particular interest in recombination and chromosomal inversions.
