Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II Manhattan Project, Libby helped develop the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium isotopes. In the mid-'40s, he discovered that a radioactive isotope of carbon was a tiny but measurable part of all living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear testing, he served on the Atomic Energy Commission from 1954 to 1959 and also headed the Eisenhower-era "Atoms for Peace" program...
Each college sets its own fees, and they are fairly steep. New York students will pay lona $92 per credit hour (or $828 for the nine-credit course on the Roman Empire), as against $30 at the University of Tennessee. Local colleges also assign each student to tutors who grade student essays and exams...
...embarrassing presidential brother, for example, has developed into a sort of genre. Lyndon Johnson's younger sibling, Sam Houston Johnson, wandered up and down the back stairs of Lyndon's career, drinking too much and now and then writing a bad check. L.B.J. had to assign a Secret Service agent to keep him out of trouble. A rivalry with the leader of the free world played hell with Sam's self-image...
Late in the afternoon, the Paratrooper is trucked with the others to barracks alongside the airfield at Fort Bragg. Here they will spend the night. But first their jumpmasters must check them in and assign them positions for the drop. It is a long, dull procedure, and the Paratrooper smiles when he thinks how much like a flock of sheep or a herd of cows they all are-passive, oblivious to the time and space they occupy, psychically removed. In their minds many of them are, like himself, already in the plane or stepping...
Crane too was frustrated by the cycle of inattention. He blames the "liberal inclination" of the press, and he proposes that candidates who appear on television interview shows be forced to assign "a dollar value" to those appearances, which would count against total spending limits...