Word: allots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rule of thumb, Smith suggests, is to assign each individual a numerical value-a member of the old aristocracy ten points, any millionaire eight, a corporation lawyer six, an obscure artist two, a clerk 0, a factory worker minus one, a Japanese (except in California) minus three-then allot each a proportionate amount of attention. Add to this a "respectful, alert, eager to learn and anxious to serve" demeanor toward ecclesiastical superiors, and eventually someone will tell the powers that be, "Jim Goodfellow is the man you are looking...
...cope with the problem, the A.M.A. has urged the Federal Communications Commission to allot two citizens' band radio channels for the sole use of drivers in distress, whose calls for assistance would be monitored by highway patrol or sheriff's offices...
This is the customary decision of most newspapers to abandon the principle of selectivity during campaigns and allot roughly equal space to the two candidates each day regardless of what they say. The practice is ignored when one candidate says something of earth-shaking importance or makes a local appearance. But for the most part, newspapers seem to regard "fairness" in a campaign as something that can be measured in inches. The standard reply to charges of journalistic partisanship is to sit down at one's back copies with a ruler and figure out that Sen. Goldwater has received...
University officials have refused to allot more land to the Kennedy library because they object strongly to Kennedy family plans for use of the extra space, it was learned yesterday...
...committee described as "necessary for the healthy growth of American science" the expansion of institutional or general research grants and the awarding of small research grants to junior scientists. It also requested that federal agencies use advisory panels of scientists to evaluate research proposals and allot grants on the basis of scientific merit...