Word: assignable
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Last week trouble abruptly surfaced. Peretz, just before departing for a two-week holiday in Spain, admitted that "there have been tensions" between him and Harrison about "how the magazine should move" but denied that he had stripped Harrison of the power to assign articles. Harrison was ducking reports of his impending departure. Said one knowledgeable source: "It's a bad situation." At week's end Harrison was still in charge, but chances are that the old New Republic will never be quite the same again...
This saved him from more direct humiliation. In four days of meetings, the caucus voted to take the power to assign all House committee members-a vital source of Mills' influence-away from Ways and Means and give it to the Democratic Steering Committee, which consists of the House leaders and other influential party members. This in effect gives Speaker Albert an appointive power not held by a House leader since it was carved away from the autocratic Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon in 1910. The caucus voted to increase Mills' committee to 37 members, including 25 Democrats...
Koch's theories of teaching seem sound enough. He believes in taking children seriously as poets, yet removing some of the aura of difficulty and remoteness surrounding poetry. He wants the atmosphere to be fun, would never assign 'homework.' From his experience at PS 61 he concluded that children enjoy writing poetry "because it provides welcome relief from required subjects." Because it is a group-activity it "belies self-consciousness or self-doubt." And he believes it to be "competitive in a mild and exhilarating way." Koch thinks that a teacher can overcome a child's fear of writing...
...Holt amendment provides that federal funds be withheld from school systems that classify, assign or their teachers or students by ethnic standards. During debate on the amendment, Rep. Bella S. Abzug (D.--N.Y.) and others attacked the rider for not defining "school system." Without further working, the bill could be interpreted so as to make Title IX and other affirmative action programs that relate to colleges illegal, Abzug said...
...want to allow anyone to gain absolute power over their jobs. Under the contracts Chavez sought, the growers would not be able to hire the workers. A grower would have to ask the UFW to send him men when he needed them and the UFW would then assign workers...