Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target of Democratic affections, the man to whom Wright would most like to assign the conduct of U.S. policy in Central America, is Costa Rican President Arias. He has become the authority for what is right and what is not. With his Nobel aura, Arias has taken on the aspect of a man who has transcended mere politics and national interest...
...obvious solution would be to schedule another "vacation" after reading period in order for students to prepare for exams. But professors would just assign additional papers due when we return. If the trend continues, with professors maintaining a negligible respect for student concerns, it won't be long before classes will meet and papers will be due during Finals Period...
Some treat his reflections on Nazism not as a walk around the rim of the deepest spiritual crater in European history, but as a modish and sinister nostalgia for Hitler. What other motives, the argument goes, can you assign to a painter who at 24 was photographed Sieg heil-ing outside the Colosseum or on the edge of the sea, as though "occupying" these sites in the name of the dead Fuhrer? Plenty, as it turned out. The shot of Kiefer saluting the Mediterranean is an acrid parody, the Nazi as Canute trying to raise himself to the level...
Stock Specialists. Under close scrutiny last week was the manner in which brokers and brokerages "make a market" -- set a price -- on the big exchanges and in smaller over-the-counter markets. The N.Y.S.E. currently has one trader, or specialist, assigned to each stock on the floor. The specialist's job is to keep the market moving, if necessary by buying or selling out of his brokerage accounts. On Black Monday, specialists lost hundreds of millions of dollars while picking up stocks no one else wanted. But some specialists have been accused of staying purposely away from the money-losing...
...written appears to bend over backwards to assign blame to the Reagan-Administration," he said. "And it contains innuendoes unsupported by the documents we have...