Word: assigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officers say that undergraduates assign Harvard police a reputation based mostly on anecdotes and word-of-mouth accounts. A random arrest, breaking up a party, driving a sick roommate to University Health Services or taking a report of a stolen bicycle amount only to a spotty description of the actual role police play, they...
...yesterday's meeting, Lee called for an"emergency" meeting of the council, scheduled fortonight, in order to assign publicity andtechnical duties for the upcoming event...
...dimensions of the inspection effort are daunting, and have been made even more so by the budget slashes of the Reagan era. The FDA, for example, can assign only 910 staff members -- in contrast to 1,105 in 1977 -- to monitor food, including imports. Some foreign growers easily circumvent the process; produce from Mexico is often trundled across the border at Nogales, Ariz., on the inspector's day off. And the USDA last year fielded only 7,000 inspectors -- down from 10,000 eight years ago -- to examine the carcasses of nearly 120 million cows, pigs and horses...
Despite widespread public belief, news organizations rarely assign large teams of reporters to controversial, breaking stories, Bernstein said...
Complaints against the first randomization plan included: that houses with the worst image problems would not participate; that the plan had been implemented without sufficient student consultation; that it would be ineffective in any event because too few students would be assigned randomly; that housing choice had been promised to pre-frosh and lastly, that any plan to assign only some students randomly will always be implicitly unfair...