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...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...
...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...