Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the prevalence of construction workers around Lowell and Winthrop, Bossert has asked Cayer to assign a special-duty policeman to guard the premises but has not yet received a response. Cayer could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...vowing to keep mum may not stop the harassment. Local papers will often assign a team of four or five reporters to badger jurors in the first days after a trial. Says the New York Post's combative Steve Dunleavy: "I love to get inside a juror's head." Anthea Frankl sat on the White Plains, N.Y., murder trial growing out of the Stouffer's Inn fire that killed 26 business executives. She saw so many newspeople that she began to rate them, from the New York Times ("totally ethical") to a local Westchester County, N.Y., paper...
...Hossein Moussavi spelled out those terms and stressed Khomeini's intractable demand that Saddam Hussein must go before peace can be restored. The Algerians, according to a senior Iranian diplomat, suggested that one way to break the impasse would be to create an international commission that would assign guilt in the gulf war and thus presumably condemn Saddam Hussein for his initial invasion of Iran. But Moussavi rejected the idea and declined to modify his position. Said he: "Iran will accept Algerian mediation if it helps to achieve the Iranian conditions...
...budget for textbooks and supplies was cut in half last year. There are so few textbooks that some teachers say they can not allow students to take them home-and therefore cannot assign any home work. There is no citywide curriculum for teaching basic skills in each grade and no standard of promotions. As a result, 89% of the students are promoted each year...
College administrations have encouraged Houses to assign freshman rooms in the summer for several years, saying it is unnecessary for some students to worry about not having a room because sufficient rooms have always been available by fall...