Word: allotment
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Some companies allot to research a fixed proportion of sales (from less than 1% for transportation companies to more than 6% for big electrical and chemical manufacturers), give research directors a free rein in pursuing likely leads. Esso Research measures each venture by its "probability ratio," i.e., the value of the potential product, multiplied by the probability of successful research, divided by the cost of the work...
...Pineau suggested that the U.S. allot 6% of its foreign aid through the United Nations to avoid any East-West competition; Dulles thought this unrealistic...
...Ford.'' Buy-Ford fever was running high throughout the U.S., as Ford Motor Co. prepared for the Jan. 18 launching of its first public stock sale (TIME, Nov. 14). The Ford Foundation, owner of the stock to be sold, had asked brokers and dealers to allot each customer initially no more than 100 shares. But it looked as if most customers would be lucky to get ten shares apiece...
Before 1947, the House conducted its own fund-raising appeal. Cooperating with the Student Council's plan to have one drive for all charities, it gave up its campaign in 1948. In return the Council made in informal guarantee to "allot to PBH. . . the sum the Council considers necessary to aid in its operation, provided that PBH shall not conduct an individual drive for funds...
There are also the more general questions, the implications of which extend beyond administration. Whom is the library serving, how should it allot this service, how should it increase its own importance...