Word: assignable
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...Assigning Responsibility. The guilt of common soldiers and junior officers, according to Taylor, depends largely on whether or not their acts are consistent with widespread battle practiceregardless of official orders. If they are consistent, then responsibility may move up as high as the commanding general. Taylor cites the case of General Tomayuki Yamashita, commander of Japanese forces in the Philippines during the chaotic final stages of World War II. Yamashita had given orders against unnecessary killing, but because he failed to prevent it, a military court tried him and put him to death. Taylor suggests that...
According to retired Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, who has concentrated on court congestion in recent years, a key roadblock is the over-compartmentalizing of judges. Most cities assign one judge to handle all arraignments, another for all motions, and so on. Prosecutors and even public defenders are often assigned the same way. Thus all have to start from scratch at each level. Justice Clark and other experts urge that a single judge should handle each case from start to finish. The experimental reform has already speeded up court work in San Francisco, Cleveland and Pittsburgh...
...guide the Penn men around Cambridge's best trick or treat neighborhoods, Harvard will assign one of its players to each of the visitors as a big brother. The Crimson checked out Halloween costumes through Jimmy Cunniff yesterday; Rod Foster picked Superboy, Tom Miller got Hopalong Cassidy, and Gary Farneti selected Mighty Joe Young...
Other sections of the statute would increase the size of the narcotics squad, which now numbers five, and would assign a police officer to investigate drug traffic within the Cambridge schools. Vellueci specifically mentioned putting two specially trained policemen and one policewoman in Harvard Square on a 24-hour basis...
...word-symbols but their application in totally unfamiliar contexts. Having taught her to associate the color red with apple and the color green with grape, says Premack, "we then tested her comprehension of the conception 'color of.' " He was not surprised when Sarah demonstrated her ability to assign the characteristic "color of" to totally unfamiliar objects: that the redness of an apple, for instance, could also be found-and recognized by her -in a persimmon...