Word: assigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common discipline, under single command and responsibility -not to individual governments but to all the member governments." A High Authority made up of representatives of the six countries would oversee its 43 divisions, its 560,000 ground combat troops. A Commissioner of Defense with broad powers would boss it, assign military commanders, set a common military budget, allocate military aid. Important undertakings such as U.N. and NATO involve no such surrender of national sovereignty...
...hands-off policy, like Harvard's, Radcliffe has increased the freedom of its students. Now a girl can get a part-time job with a newspaper just as with a lunch counter. She may apply directly to an editor instead of waiting and hoping for the publicity office to assign her. Newspapers can choose reporters on their merits instead of being forced to swallow whomever the publicity office assigns...
More trouble came from the rivalry between various Red Cross chapters to see which would get the most donations. Thus Cambridge officials were reluctant to assign overflow donors to Boston hospitals...
...faculty is unable to overcome either of the difficulties that have crippled the original House dean plan, it would be best to leave the deans where they now sit in University Hall. If more deans are required, more can be hired. It might even be feasible to assign each dean to the students in one or two of the Houses, rather than to those in part of a class, as is now the case. But if the deans are not going to co-ordinate tutorial or be senior faculty members in accord with the Advising Report's suggestions, they should...
...three C.I.O. unions, chemical, electrical and oil, battled for the right to organize employees of the National Carbon Co. in Cleveland. As a result of this row, the workers voted "no union." The C.I.O. executive board drew up a plan under which the national organization or an arbitrator will assign disputed plants to one union or another, forbid rivals from campaigning against the chosen union in plant elections...