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...retain the cepts acquire an understanding that goes beyond a rote knowledge of who said what. These teachers may also delight in the cept as a handy way of rating the quality of a student's essay in quantitative terms. They merely scan the essay, underline the cepts, assign a numerical value to each, and tot them up. Other teachers never admit they are even aware of cepts-but tacitly use them anyway in grading. Superlative ceptsmanship amounts to a canny duel between teacher and student...
...than the combined assets of the parent banks, has gained six new branches (total: 136) and thousands of new customers. To Justice, this simply reinforces a contention that the merger materially reduced bank competition in New York; for the bank, it raises the question of how it can possibly assign its new assets and customers in any split. The bank is expected to fight right up to the Supreme Court any move to materially reduce its size...
Secrets Galore. Swiss banks hold $3,000 worth of riches for each Swiss inhabitant, but their greatest treasure is the anonymous sanctuary of numbered accounts. Only two or three bank officers usually know the true identity of the depositors. The bankers also assign false names to all such depositors (obtaining a specimen signature of the alias) so that nobody can present a lucky string of numbers to a teller and walk away with a secret fortune. Any banker who violates what the law calls "his duty to observe silence or professional secrecy" faces a fine...
...like almost all other Cunard passenger liners, on the banks of Scotland's River Clyde, in the yards of John Brown & Co. With British shipyards ailing, John Brown pared its bid almost to cost to win the largest ship order in British history. This summer the company will assign 5,500 workers to the task of putting together the 58,000-ton Queen...
...Cambridge City Council yesterday asked Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan assign five, full-time specially-trained officers to rout out the drug traffic in Harvard Square. At the same time, the Council scheduled a meeting with City, County, and state officials for next Monday to discuss further measures to combat...