Word: assign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When David Stollman set off for his freshman year, the never expected his Ivy League school to assign him to a modern suite on the 11th floor of a 24-floor high-rise, an apartment with a large living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and two bedrooms for there people...
...Coop is short for co-operative. Look at the by-laws and charter to see how difficult they've made it for you, the presumed owner, to change the board. It's a priceless opportunity. Set up a checklist for whatever causes you want and assign rebates to them," he said...
...needs; certainly not. If we compare what we gave over the years with what we got, we without doubt gave much more in much more important fields than we received." Said Prime Minister Shamir of the convicted spy: "The State of Israel didn't hire him and didn't assign him espionage missions." As for Pollard, Shamir observed, his plight was a "human problem, maybe a moral problem," but it was "not a problem that the State of Israel must concern itself with...
MANY PEOPLE before me have suggested that the ideal way to run the lottery would be to assign numbers to rooming scanned. The people in rooming group 330 know that if they list Adams as their second choice, it too will be full by the time everybody in the class has been consulted, and they will again be dropped to the bottom of the list. Instead, they list Dunster, in hopes that nobody listed Dunster as a "first choice house" and that space will be available when the program comes back to them...
...program should be altered, however, to allow freshmen to list all 13 houses in order of preference. The computer should then come to rooming group 330, see that although Lowell is full second-choice Adams still has space, and assign the roommates to that house. If Adams is full, consult the group's third, fourth, fifth choices, etc. until an open house is found...