Word: assigned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Best? The dispute has made a shambles of two COMECON meetings in recent weeks, and may force Moscow to call a summit meeting of party secretaries to resolve it. Even then, COMECON's efforts to assign production will face years of delay. Methods of figuring production costs vary so drastically from member to member that no one is sure who makes which product the best. "We cannot check the calculations of our partner, nor translate our calculations into language which is comprehensible to him," complains a distracted Polish economist. No more direct evidence is needed of COMECON...
...answers for the purpose of teaching, as well as testing. It is well-known that students often learn from answering questions on examinations, but hour exams and finals are scanty teaching instrument. Why not incorporate the asking of insightful questions into the regular procedure? Specifically, the instructor might regularly assign questions which deal with fundamental aspects of the course material and which are designed to stimulate insight, but which can be--and are required to be--answered in a small number of words, ranging perhaps from 25 to 150 (An example, concerning Plato's Republic: "What is the relation between...
...Credit Corp. loan on it at the support price. Later the farmer may repay the loan, reclaim his crop, and sell it on the open market. Or, if he finds that the market price is lower than the support price, he can simply keep that loan and, in exchange, assign the stored crop to the CCC. That is what happens to about two-thirds of the stuff on which farmers get CCC loans-the Government, and thereby the taxpayer, gets stuck with...
...newspaper." Under the plan, missile-bearing Polaris submarines probably will have multinational crews. West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Turkey have already indicated their willingness to participate, although they have not yet been told how much of the expense they will have to bear. The British promise to assign some 180 of their Vulcan bombers to NATO's new nuclear command, and the U.S. probably will contribute some SAC planes. But there are many sticky details still to be worked out. Who, for example, will turn the firing keys? And under what conditions? McNamara's Pentagon aides insist that...
...office of the Secretary of the Senate wandered Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey. He was real casual. Why, he asked, was everybody working so hard? Well, they were preparing new legislative bills for printing in time for the opening of Congress in January. And did they, asked Humphrey, also assign legislative numbers? Yes they did. Any system for assigning numbers? Nope. How about this bill here? asked Hubert. Mightn't it just as well be Senate Bill No. 1 as any other? Yes, sighed the bill clerk, it might. And so it will. It happens to be Humphrey...