Word: assignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though SelectaVision is dead, videodisc technology will probably continue to grow. Such firms as Pioneer and Magnavox, which sell disc machines that use a more advanced system based on lasers, are expected to continue making machines. These devices, which assign a number to each image, allow the user to call up an individual frame almost instantly. Priced at about $700, the laser players are often used in education and industry. Several firms are developing ways to use video discs as data-storage devices for computers...
...dealt with," admits Kleinfelder, who will assign junior defender Jenny Greeley to the task...
...insensible to the central lesson of Watergate, that a seemingly trivial act can take on such Aeschylean significance as to threaten the balance of the world. But it would be wrong to assign all the blame for that state of affairs to Nixon. There were abuses, and actions that were worse than abuses, on all sides. One need not describe the damage, not the least of which is that the U.S. now has a precedent for the removal of an elected President from office through a process of denunciation rather than due process...
Hispanic leaders will also press Law to assign more Hispanic priests to parishes in Spanish-speaking communities. "It's important for congregations to identify with a clergyman from the same background," explains Joseph A. Rodriguez, Hispanic liaison to the mayor's office...
...terms of this sense of community, the co-ops have come full circle since they were first built. This "esprit de corps" was challenged last year when the University, charging that the co-ops had been undersubscribed for the past several years, began to assign overflow students from the Quad Houses...