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Since the mechanism of choice can be, and has been, adjusted each year to meet the needs of the system and its participants, there is nothing irreversible in the selection of one assignment method over another in any given year. For the assignment to Houses of the present freshman class, I anticipate further adjustments to the current choice-based system. A limited choice system, wherein students would list perhaps three choices of Houses, is under consideration. Concurrently, various methods of preassignment will be carefully evaluated as a means of bringing about an earlier student identification with particular Houses. It would...
...concentrated in southern Germany could be shifted to reinforce the British Army of the Rhine in the more vulnerable north. But any troop shift must overcome formidable civilian obstacles, ranging from lengthy litigation to buy land to the outraged cries of conservationists. The U.S. is soon to assign a 3,800-man brigade to the Bremerhaven area; the negotiations for the base's lease took two years...
...department won't assign a student a thesis advisor unless he is very serious about completing his thesis, Hartman said...
...Well let me speak to that because that is a good example of what I had in mind. What the Congress did recently was to pass a provision which is vague but may be interpreted to mean that the Secretary of HEW [Health, Education and Welfare] can assign to particular medical schools students who've completed part of their medical training abroad...
...services have gained enormous power in recent years, influencing the investment of millions of dollars in commercial and municipal bonds. The services' analysts investigate all financial aspects of firms or municipalities that issue bonds. The information is then studied by committees of three or four experts, who finally assign the bond's rating. Often the decisions are unanimous, but exactly what criteria are used in making these judgments is sometimes unclear. As a result, some businessmen and politicians, uneasy about how rating decisions are reached, have been calling for greater Government supervision of the rating services...