Word: assign
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...were forthright and comprehensive, and almost miraculously, he avoided making long lists in all but a few answers. On the stump Clinton can appear too smart; indeed, at times he is almost smart- alecky, like the kid who raises his hand to remind the teacher that he forgot to assign homework over Christmas. There was none of that in St. Louis, just an appropriate sense of urgency coupled with rhetorical certitude, the two combining to leave the impression that Clinton knows where he would take the nation if he gets the chance...
...says she does not want simply to assign blame to any one culture or group, and is particularly wary of alienating Italian American students. Hoffman says the day should be a celebration and examination of all the diverse cultures...
...Hopkins researchers, reported in Nature, is but the latest example. A 70-year-old retired librarian who suffered such an injury developed a remarkable symptom: she lost the ability to name animals, though % she could still name other living things, such as plants, and inanimate objects. Nor could she assign physical attributes to animals -- she could not, for example, answer the question "What color is an elephant?" Yet she could answer nonphysical questions, about whether a given animal lived on land or in the sea, or whether it was normally kept as a pet. And when shown a picture...
...Douglas Hogg: the conferees will "make it absolutely plain to the Serbs that they are not going to be allowed to retain the land they have grabbed" in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The conference will consider tightening sanctions against the Bosnian Serbs' patrons in Belgrade and may approve a plan to assign 10,000 fresh United Nations troops to escort relief convoys from the Adriatic port of Split to the besieged capital of Sarajevo. "The Serbs may discover that it is in their interest -- you have to persuade them that it is in their interest -- to negotiate," says U.N. Secretary-General Boutros...
...computer program used to assign summer school students to dormitories has created great discrepancies in the sizes of proctor groups, with groups ranging from 30 students to zero, Dean of Students Christopher C. Queen said yesterday...