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Word: assign (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also called on professors to assign more interesting readings in more manageable amounts...

Author: By Betty L. Cung, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: HLS Graduate Criticizes School | 3/17/1992 | See Source »

Create a computer virus that crashes the system if your name appears on the same screen with the address Linnaean Street. Every time they try to assign you to the Quad, they will have to start over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Win | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...ordered non-choice--You pick the four houses that you least want to live in. The computer randomly ranks them. It then tries to assign you to one of the other eight houses. If that fails, you are put into the randomly assigned first house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lost Causes | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...when a Los Angeles social worker named Alice Stebbins Wells became the country's first full- fledged female police officer, women served mostly as radio dispatchers, matrons, and social workers for juveniles and female prison inmates. Not until 1968 did Indianapolis become the first force in the country to assign a woman to full-time field patrol. Since then, the numbers of women in policing have risen steadily, thanks largely to changes in federal antidiscrimination laws. Madison, Wis., boasts a 25% female force, the highest percentage of any department in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Women Better Cops? | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Judges will assign the remaining points onSaturday when skaters will perform their longprograms...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Harvard Students After Gold | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

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