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...limited enrollment courses will all follow their own sectioning procedures once people have been admitted to them. Most will assign people to sections tentatively when they are admitted to the course. Some, however, will first admit students and then section...
...assign men to Europe who are inexperienced in European business, or transfer them out of a country as fast as they learn their way around. Some French businessmen refer to the U.S. practice of shifting executives from job to job and country to country as la valse des directeurs...
...official visit to a NATO country. For the Rumanians, who are defiantly determined to push ahead with full-scale industrialization of their country, the visit was a gesture designed to show Khrushchev that they would neither accept the grocery-store and gas-station role he wants to assign them in Comecon (the Kremlin's Common Market), nor would they meekly bow to Moscow's bidding in the ideological battle with China...
...many anthropologists accept this genealogy in its entirety. Some of them argue that Dr. Leakey's newfound fossils are examples of prehuman creatures that happen to look fairly manlike. Others agree that they are extremely interesting but maintain that they are too fragmentary to assign a definite place in the primate family tree. Leakey's Homo habilis may well become established as an ancestral man-if he is not first demoted to an apeman, as was Zinjanthropus...
...under firm control. Sipping coffee at sidewalk cafes, Saigon's intelligentsia carp about Khanh's attempts to rally the capital into the backlands war it has so long regarded as something apart. The Premier has ordered all male university graduates to report to military school, plans to assign able-bodied male civilians in Saigon to part-time guard duty; even more shocking, he has abolished four of the government bureaucracy's twelve annual holidays...