Word: assignment
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...turn, these high prices dissuade potential buyers from actually purchasing the books. “I’m reluctant to assign my classes scholarly books to buy, because they are very expensive,” says Greenblatt...
...these meetings would be spread out over two or three weeks before study cards are due, and therefore advisors would be less busy. Of course, this doesn’t do much for the root causes of problems with advising—departments who still don’t assign an individual adviser to each student and instead rely on walk-in advising “office hours,” advisers who don’t know enough about the relevant courses and advisers who don’t know enough about the student whom they are advising...
While Bogart can assign demanding amounts of work, Guest calls her working style “dialectic” rather than dictatorial...
Palestinian financial reformers have an advantage that political progressives lack: a population that is sick of corruption and can't blame it on outsiders. Palestinians often assign their lack of progress toward an independent state to Israeli and American obstinacy, but malfeasance is an all-Palestinian issue, one on which there is a broad popular demand for change. That has given Fayyad, a former official of the International Monetary Fund with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas, the confidence to order the scrubbing of the Authority's books. Says Karim Nashashibi, the IMF's representative...
There are ways to avoid or at least reduce the heartache. Getting professional assistance is one. The goal for a hired elder-care manager is to help assign everyone a suitable job. "I figure out what people's different strengths are so they can find a way to contribute," says Steve Barlam, a Los Angeles geriatric-care manager. "I just don't buy it that someone is too busy to deal with part of the care. That message is better coming from me than from a big sister...