Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claimed the lives of dozens of judges, policemen and journalists. The battle had slowed noticeably when Virgilio Barco Vargas was sworn in as President last August. The early months of his administration suggested to some that Barco was more interested in his country's economic troubles and did not assign high priority to the drug...
Faculty members at Cornell University are this month debating whether professors should be able to receive royalties from books they assign to students in their courses, The Cornell Daily Sun reported...
...resolution does not require that professors turn over profits they make when their colleagues at Cornell assign their books. Typically, professors receive 10 to 15 percent of the price of the first 5000 books sold, with increasing royalties for more books sold...
Under the old system, professors had to assign Low Passes or Unsatisfactories to 10 to 15 percent and Excellents to 15 to 20 percent of the students in each of 18 class sections into which B-School students are randomly placed...
...wary independence of some of its members. While MCC companies all want to share in the fruits of the consortium's research, they do not want to give competitors an edge. Says Drew Peck, who follows electronics companies for the Gartner Group: "Member firms are reluctant to assign their first-tier researchers to MCC. To them, sharing their research talent and resources with competitors is considered an unnatural act." But that is exactly what U.S. companies may have to do to best their Japanese rivals...