Word: assign
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...still assign to yourself a global role and to us a very limited, regional sphere of influence," says a foreign ministry official in Moscow. "Well, you'll have to get over that notion. It's outdated and unjust. We too are now a global power, and we have the right to compete with you on a global scale. That is only fair if we are truly your equals...
...work and keeping up are in the minority." Excessive paperwork? "The only way I deal with it is to try to do it," she says, though she now often has to grade papers during lunch hour as well as at home. Kids who won't do homework? "I assign work to the child with a note of finality, and I keep after him until he realizes that I will pester until the work is done. He might as well do it in the first place." Demands that take teachers' time from teaching? "Sometimes you have to fight...
...demonstrated the "blatant racism" of the American judiciary constitutes poor thanks to the magistracy that cleared the defendant's record. Ms. Russell would have had a more vivid story if Judge Grabau had shown less respect for the rules of evidence and had played the racist role which journalists assign to white magistrates in their allegories of American jurisprudence. But I wonder if Mr. Ezera would have shared the reporter's excitement. John Bovey...
...Louisiana last week but has not yet endorsed him. Most of the group's $1 million war chest is targeted for registration and voter education. Moral Majority claims friendly churches have registered more than 1.5 million voters and have increased Republican primary voting in the South. It will assign 70,000 clergy to an even bigger registration blitz in July. Affiliates are at work in 43 states. The Majority is so issues-oriented, Falwell insists that if he had to choose between a Christian politician who did not agree with his views and a nonbeliever...
Altogether, Eurich estimates, the 1978 freshmen read no better than 1928 high school seniors. "Students today have greater difficulty in understanding what they read," he says. "Instructors have to adapt to a lower level of reading ability in the texts they assign and the amount they can expect students to cover." Indeed, in 1928, roughly half of Minnesota high school students studied Latin or another foreign language, and they learned to cope with knotty classic texts. Today Latin is offered in only 16 of the state's 600 secondary schools, and English courses are less structured and demanding. There...