Word: assignment
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Couch attributes surgery-related mishaps to clearly avoidable errors by doctors who were too quick to operate, too confident of their skills and techniques, and too concerned with doing currently fashionable procedures. By contrast, Steel feels it is often impossible to assign blame for complications that occur among general medical patients, and that this is even more true for the many elderly patients with multiple ailments in the study. The complex of diagnostic tests and drugs used makes it difficult to isolate any one cause of trouble. Says Steel: "I don't really know for certain...
Your proposal to revive the draft is outrageously demeaning to women. You assign women the same status as cripples and exempt them altogether from conscription. Women should not be sheltered from the hardships-or deprived of the benefits-of military service. Only when women share equal responsibilities with men will they be treated as equal citizens...
...petrified at the exam because they'll each be prepared to answer at best a third of each question and they'll do miserably. There will be no pattern to the ignorance and grading will be difficult. The professor will be horror-struck and his response will be to assign more readings. A situation like this can often be foreseen by the second week of the term...
Although Kameny dismisses the idea that homosexuals are especially susceptible to blackmail, many intelligence experts disagree. Says Cord Meyer, former CIA assistant deputy director for operations: "The Soviets specialize in homosexual cases. They assign KGB agents who are homosexuals themselves to entrap our agents." Another U.S. expert cites the case of a homosexual British clerk with the naval attaché's office in Moscow in the mid '50s, William Vassall, who passed Admiralty secrets to the Soviets...
...Report on the Core Curriculum suggested such a connection--which would have freshmen sign up for Expos sections corresponding to Core courses they are in. But for a number of reasons--a major one was that Core courses do not assign enough written work to make such a link feasible--Marius rejected the idea, and the standing committee informally decided to drop...