Word: assign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance for administrative improvement lies in the assignment of judges. Explains Vanderbilt: "It is intolerably bad business administration to have some judges overworked while others sit by half idle . . . This means that someone must be given the power to assign the trial judges to those courts where they are most needed." The obvious person to be given this administrative power, says Vanderbilt, is the top judicial officer in each state (in most cases, the chief justice...
...anymore." Some of Grace's admirers fear that M-G-M may do to her what the studio did to Deborah Kerr-lash her down to "lady" roles and keep her there. Even after The Country Girl, the best M-G-M could think of was to assign Grace to Green Fire (which she did as her part of the bargain on Country Girl} and then offer her Quentin Durward. Grace, who sees the satin-lined trap as clearly as anyone, refused the Durward part after reading the script. "All the men can duel and fight...
...mouth to mouth in your village that you want to be rich, that you are a reactionary. They will threaten you with public discussion. They will isolate you: you will find that your neighbors will not dare speak to you. If this does not teach you joy, they will assign you work that will kill you. And it is never the Communists who do any of these things, it is the people; it is always in the name of the people...
Since few pension investors are interested in quick, speculative gains, the effect of this buying has been to bull up as well as stabilize the stock market. Most funds invest on the "dollar averaging" principle, i.e., assign a specific amount of money each year to buying a certain stock. If the stock rises, the fund can buy fewer shares; if the stock falls, it can buy more, thus tending to stabilize the market...
...disputants turned to the National Labor Relations Board for a ruling (TIME, May 3). Last week came the decision: NBC is perfectly within its rights to assign an actor to Elmer, and violates no NLRB statutes...