Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong-willed Mayor Jane Byrne. Richard Daley, her predecessor, had kept the firemen content by raising their pay without a contract until the average $22,300-a-year salary was among the highest paid to the nation's firemen. But Byrne resisted demands for a contract that would assign a six-man team to each fire truck (up from the current four or five men), cover supervisors, and include the right to strike...
Nathan A. Low '82, a member of the Harvard staff organizing the event, said the organizers assign countries according the school's performance in other model U.N.'s the University of Baltimore, which Low said performs well annually, is this year's United States...
...President decided last fall to assign 100,000 men?basically members of the Marine Corps's 1st and 3rd divisions and the Army's 82nd and 101st airborne divisions?to a Rapid Deployment Force that eventually will be able to respond quickly to emergencies anywhere in the world. The force will be supplied by a fleet of 15 ships, most of them stationed near areas of crisis, and an undetermined number of new cargo planes probably based in the U.S. Total cost: about $10 billion. But the ships and planes exist only on drawing boards. The force is not expected...
...over-crowded years. The Jordans were designed to hold 25 people each, but either students were smaller then or had a lower standard of comfort: at least half of the "doubles" are used as singles, and the coops put up stiff resistance when the Quad housing offices try to assign any extra bodies to a Jordan...