Word: assign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson also ordered the FBI to assign 50 to 100 men "to make an immediate and comprehensive inquiry and report promptly to me and the American people." He instructed Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon to look into security procedures of the Secret Service, an arm of his department. And the Central Intelligence Agency quietly began probing the possibility that the Jenkins case might involve foreign espionage through blackmail...
Bate further proposed in 1961 that credit tutees carry a work load equivalent to that of two courses, and non-credit honors tutees carry a work load equivalent to that of only one course. This scheme has never become formal department policy. In practice, however, some tutors do assign less work and give less time to their non-credit tutees. The department has admitted that non-credit tutees can do honors work, and it requires no given amount of preparation in English before junior year. Students in non-credit honors tutorial, then, should receive the same degree of attention...
...Bliss and California's Bill Knowland, to review and plot progress. They study polls, preview ad drives, advise on policy, and discuss what to do about the chronic shortage of campaign funds. Already, the top advisers have analyzed past election returns in sufficient detail to assign every county in the U.S. (total: 3,131) a quota of Goldwater votes to deliver. Their three-phase plan for precinct-level activity: 1) canvass every household for Goldwater votes, 2) help those voters get to the polls, 3) watch the polling places so as to be sure that the votes are tallied...
...limited enrollment courses will all follow their own sectioning procedures once people have been admitted to them. Most will assign people to sections tentatively when they are admitted to the course. Some, however, will first admit students and then section...
...assign men to Europe who are inexperienced in European business, or transfer them out of a country as fast as they learn their way around. Some French businessmen refer to the U.S. practice of shifting executives from job to job and country to country as la valse des directeurs...