Word: allot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar layering effect happens in the pension-fund corner of the financial world. Workers entrust their savings to trustees, who hire professional managers, who allot their assets among professional-inves tment firms, so that the investment firms can in turn allot them among various stocks and bonds. And there's a whole subindustry of pension-fund consultants who get paid to tell the managers which investment firms to allot their assets among...
...provision, which is part of the memorandum allowing the Wampanoag casino plan to go forward, would allot 400 slot machines to each of the state's four racetracks...
...Supreme Court gave cable television greater free-speech rights than airwave competitors, nearly striking down a law that requires them to allot a third of their space to local broadcast stations. Four justices voted to rescind the "must carry" provision of the 1992 Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act, but the remainder decided to ship the case back to federal appeals court in the District of Columbia. The decision has only a short-term effect, though: there'll be plenty of room for the local stations in cable's 500-channel future...
...ROTC debate settled down considerably afterthe faculty ended the three-day strike on April17, 1969, by voting to allot ROTC onlyextracurricular status and effectively forcing theprogram of the Harvard campus...
...Project Labor Agreement, according to Williams, implied that the University would allot more jobs to the unions in projects not explicitly designated in the agreement. The University has said the agreement did not cover projects other than the Yard and Holyoke Center jobs...