Word: assign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events: the Veterans Memorial. Three years ago, Labor Department Bureaucrat Jan Scruggs, a former Army corporal, decided that he and his fellow Viet Nam veterans needed palpable, permanent recognition in Washington, their own monument in the city of monuments. His Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Fund (V.V.M.F.) persuaded Congress to assign them two acres on the Mall, got 500,000 donors to give $7 million and managed to attract 1,421 entries to a professionally judged design competition. V.V.M.F. wanted a "reflective and contemplative" memorial with an "emphasis ... on those who died"-including a display of their names-and "without political...
Advocates of complete decriminalization argue that the court system places an unfair portion of the blame for misbehavior on the child while simultaneously according him too little responsibility for amending his own faults. Seeking to improve on the current procedure, several programs have arisen which assign blame and input alike to the child and filer of the CHINS petition...
...over the question of cost accountability. Faculty senates of more than 20 universities passed resolutions opposing Circular A21, a directive from the Office of Management and Budget that demands "effort reporting," the documentation of how teachers spend their time while receiving federal funds. Many researchers argue that they cannot assign precise percentages to the time they spend in the classroom, lab or office. Last March, Yale declined a $30,000 federal grant because its proposed recipient, Mathematics Professor Serge Lang, would not prepare or sign an effort report, although he would certify that the money had been properly spent...
...United Nations General Assembly session that convenes in New York City late this month. If his soundings are favorable, Shultz is prepared to tour Middle East capitals this fall to develop more specific ideas for getting these talks started. Once negotiations begin, if they do, the Administration may assign a special presidential envoy to watch over them full time...
Both within and without Mexico, there is wide agreement that López Portillo is attacking the symptoms of his country's disease rather than the root causes, for which many assign him the blame. After taking office in 1976, López Portillo launched an overly ambitious industrial expansion program and lavished money on an effort to transform the country into a Third World power. He provided cheap oil and other aid to Central American neighbors. Riddled with corruption, his government has a payroll loaded with jobs that do not really exist. López Portillo...