Word: assign
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Although it takes a computer only 13.9 seconds to assign upper class Houses to the more than 1600 freshmen, the ordeal of choosing rooming groups, blocs, and the three choices of Houses (ranked in order of preference) is a nearly year-long obsession for many eager fresh...
Officially, Reagan Administration policy is that all four demands are inseparable. A U.S. aide said, "We're not prepared to assign priorities to them." In reality, however, it has been an article of faith among many in Washington that the demand for democracy is paramount. As a senior U.S. official in Managua put it in June, "Internal democracy solves all the other problems...if there isn't any, Nicaragua's threat to its Central American neighbors will not abate...
...laity more often associated with priests and nuns. Yet it is not a religious order, since its lay members hold secular jobs. It is both highly centralized and decentralized: men's and women's General Councils in Rome, appointed by Del Portillo, set policy and assign national directors, but chapters in each nation plan and finance their own operations...
...disappointment, anxiety and failure. From an inability to make a freshman team to a low grade on a thesis, a failure to pass oral exams, or a denial of tenure, we allow subjective evaluations by others to constitute not only a system of values for us, but also to assign our place in this system. Perhaps it is our occasional failure to respect and value ourselves enough which contributes to our moments of insensitivity and injury to others...
SECURITY. To Americans, the precautions surrounding the Olympics appear more than adequate. The police departments in Los Angeles and surrounding communities plan to assign 16,000 officers to watch the athletes and spectators; in addition, 8,000 unarmed college students will be deputized to stand guard and summon the real police to any trouble spot. The FBI during the Olympics will increase its force of agents in the Los Angeles area from the usual 400 to 700. To the $100 million that the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee proposes to spend on security, Congress has authorized the Defense Department...