Word: assign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there could be two couples as distinctive as the Collinses in San Pedro in a yellow car. To "refine the jurors' thinking," Sinetar then explained how mathematicians calculate the probability that a whole set of possibilities will occur at once. Take three abstract possibilities (A, B, C), and assign to each a hypothetical probability factor. A, for example, may have a probability of 1 out of 3; B, 1 out of 10; C, 1 out of 100. The odds against A, B and C occurring together are the product of their total probabilities...
...biggest failing of the standard version of continual creation, says McCrea, is that almost no matter has been found between the galaxies. According to the theory, there should be 100 times as much in intergalactic space as in galaxies themselves. But it was always rather silly, McCrea thinks, to assign to space, which is the absence of matter, the ability to create tangible things such as hydrogen atoms. He bases his own theory on the principle that "continual creation of new matter is a property of existing matter depending upon its physical state...
Yale uses a computer to assign freshmen to the upper-class Colleges, permitting the preference of neither students or Masters to figure in the final decision...
...committee plans to help journalists deal with Supreme Court cases in two ways. It will send professors to the court on Mondays to help reporters understand the decisions which are handed down, and it will assign a professor to write a memorandum for the press on each important case that comes before the court...
This week THE NATION will do a state-by-state rundown on the presidential election. We will definitely assign each state either to Johnson or Goldwater...