Word: allot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these critical improvements, I believe, can be achieved through one change in the system: have students read each others' writing. Professors and TFs should allot 20 minutes of the section near the time papers are assigned for students to throw around ideas for paper topics. Do the same as the deadline approaches, so that students may share research tips, discuss writing strategies and, in general, help one another produce work of a higher quality...
...your story to make sure I wasn't reading your earlier article about the FAA. I am not sure which makes me angrier: the waste of my tax dollars on worthless fixes or a system that allows cheats to get away with tax scams. We must urge Congress to allot the IRS enough money to achieve the efficiency that is our right. The public will pay one way or another, and I prefer to get a system that will take us into the next millennium instead of allowing petty thieves to siphon off money for personal use. CATHERINE MERGEN Bloomingdale...
...addition to these successes, the Finance Committee, which also conducts its business outside of the full Council, has worked very hard and capably to allot 63 percent of the council's budget to the student grants process. The allotment of grants is a tremendous responsibility, yet it is a very worthwhile use of the council's resources as the funds are the lifeblood of many student groups on campus...
Much of the sophomoric behavior that has infiltrated the council is aggravated by an air of self-importance. For example, several weeks ago the council voted to allot $300 out of its $16,250 SpringFest budget to purchase fried dough--but not until after a vigorous debate. Which carnival food appears at SpringFest is an important decision, but do the relative merits of sno-cones and popcorn necessitate full council debate and the fanfare of self-congratulation that follows...
...angry students may not want to allot her that grace period...