Word: assignment
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...persuading the trial court to assign more judges to his district and transforming trailers into courtrooms, Sullivan said, they were able to reduce the average time between arraignment and trial from over a year to a matter of weeks...
Everywhere but here, it seems, the clamor for higher standards has driven schools to assign more and more homework. Grade-school children now average well in excess of two hours of homework a night, compared with 85 minutes in 1981, according to the University of Michigan. Last year the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons reported that thousands of kids have back, neck and shoulder problems from lugging heavy backpacks. At Beacon the books stay at school; each day Annie carries only her bright blue lunchbox...
...such as, "Why isn't one a prime number?" and "Why aren't we allowed to smoke during break?"). Nothing I teach will help students in school or life, with the possible exception of the work ethic they might develop through dutifully completing the monotonous homework sections I assign directly out of a manual. The learning process is nothing. The end goal--raising scores and deceiving college admissions officers--is everything...
...engaged in diagnosing the perpetrator's state of mind, then we may need an infinitely more complex system of laws than what we have now. If we assign, say, 12 years' imprisonment for a crime motivated by hate, then we must presumably work out a calculus of penalties for crimes committed for reasons of jealousy, or of lust, or of compassion (the Kevorkian assist, e.g.). I would like to see an entire new branch of law developed to deal out sentences for crimes committed for reasons of sheer stupidity...
...late-March: The UHO prepares the computer program that will randomly assign the blocking groups. Parameters are set that will limit the number of students who can be assigned to each individual House based on continuing student population in that House and expected attrition. Gender ratio parameters for entering students are also included and typically centered around 1.1 men to one woman. A 0.15 margin of error is allowed...