Word: assign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...separate section of Saturday's report treated the problem of police corruption. The commission equivocated on the "extent of police dishonesty," but detailed corrupt practices like rolling drunks and accepting bribes from prostitutes. They said the instances of unethical conduct were made more numerous because police departments tend to assign their most incompetent officers to slum areas...
More than any other state document, the annual budget forces a President to translate rhetoric into reality, to assign priorities and price tags to his visions. The budget's cold columns leave no room for fantasies-just stark, unyielding figures. In the budget for fiscal 1968 that Lyndon Johnson is sending to Congress this week, bound in a subdued, rust-colored cover, the priorities are baldly stated. The President calls for a sizable increase in defense spending to sustain the Viet Nam war, with a complementary slowdown-though not an actual decrease-in Great Society spending...
Adding these specialized seminars to the only course all Harvard and Radcliffe students take has created some substantial headaches. Administrators were ready to assign 1300 freshmen to regular and honors Expository Writing 10. They expected that 10 or 15 upperclassmen would apply to join the 200 freshmen who qualified for the middle-level courses. When more than 100 upperclassmen showed up for interviews the middle group courses became painfully overcrowded -- some sections have as many as 20. The freshman stampede into middle-group courses left honors section so depopulated that even when everyone shows up there are only...
...difference. Fitted out in a" Gemini pressure suit that made him neutrally buoyant in water and thus simulated weightlessness, Aldrin spent a total of a dozen hours underwater in a research pool in Baltimore (TIME, Sept. 30). Maneuvering around a submerged mock-up of Gemini 12, he rehearsed his assign ments, learning to pace himself properly...
...draft. Texas education officials contend that their teacher shortage just matches the number hired by federal programs. Indianapolis shifted 49 faculty members into anti-poverty jobs-and faced 46 vacancies when school opened. John Desmond, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, argues that "it is asinine to assign teachers to special programs while regular classrooms are unfilled...