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According to the English Department, it is up to the instructor in charge to select his own assistants, and he may arrange the burden as he wishes. Rosenberg tries to assign his eight graders by giving the largest burdens to the most experienced assistants and to those with the most time. Some of his staff have 35 to 40 students, and none has over...
...social systems by assuming that effect is proportional to cause. It may be accurate in most of science, Purcell said, but it is "wildly untrue in human affairs. Any historical event is utterly non-linear, the result of a large number of causes." Thus, he said, you cannot assign weights to various causes...
...Guevara's pleas for coexistence reflected Cuba's increasing economic troubles. With something less than his usual cockiness. Fidel Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who will assign them numbers. When meat arrives, the butcher is supposed to post, by turn, the numbers of housewives who may buy one-half pound per family member. The butchers do not know how often they will get deliveries from the government; the housewives do not know when-or if-their numbers will come...
...thumb: three lbs. of weight equals one length in a mile race. From his performance charts (meticulously maintained by a trained, fulltime staff of nine), his own turf experience (he began working at tracks when he was 19) and reliable paddock chatter, Trotter gets the information he needs to assign weights: the ability of the horse to carry weight, the quality of its stable, the canniness of its trainer, the track's condition...
Such plans infringe on A.M.A.'s oldest tenets: that doctors should be paid a fee for each service and that patients and doctors should choose each other freely. Fully organized health plans collect from patients on insurance principles, pay their doctors salaries or shares, and assign patients to qualified specialists. A.M.A. fought group plans for years; the surrender was a belated recognition by A.M.A.'s scientific element that these systems can and do give good results. Out of such challenges and accommodations comes 1961's ferment of change in the relation between doctors and patients...