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Word: assign (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea subside to a dead letter. The Civil Aeronautics Board's attempts to make things easier on the travelling public during the strike by reshuffling air routes for example, has been interpreted by some observers as, in effect, saying to management, "Look, boys, we have the power to assign routes, and and if you give in to the union, who knows how they'll be assigned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Airline Strike | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...lead Berkeley in four of five fields. Harvard is in first place nine times to Berkeley's seven, in first or second place 16 times to Berkeley's nine. Not until we consider third position does Berkeley pull ahead by one department. Is it logical to assign as much weight to third place as to first? I am further confused by a classification that assigns three out of five main groupings to the pure or applied sciences and none to the arts, medicine, law, business or theology. I fail to see why it is more logical to divide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1966 | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...million, its profits in this year's first fiscal half (ending in January) have dropped 14%, to $7.9 million, and its stock is down from last year's high of 501 of last week's close of 221. Ferkauf himself is the first to assign the trouble to "a lack of communication among a very small management group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Romance at Korvette | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, said yesterday he had reservations about the plan. He pointed out that instructors would not now be required to assign midterm grades, while this reporting has been mandatory in "courses regularly open to freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upperclassmen's Midterm Marks To Be Reported If Unsatisfactory | 5/18/1966 | See Source »

...Atlanta. Judge Roller, a pretty hot fan himself, said no. After a six-week trial and 7,000 pages of testimony, he ruled that the National League had violated Wisconsin's "little Sherman" antitrust laws. The league, said Roller, had conspired to "control and allocate" players, to "assign exclusive territorial rights and privileges," and to "limit the number of members in the National League"-thereby "substantially" restraining Wisconsin's trade and commerce. He fined the league $5,000 and each of its ten teams another $5,000, assessed them for court costs (which could run as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Cold Wind from Wisconsin | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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