Word: assignments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee resolution stated that "one possible solution would be to assign pooms to seniors, juniors, and sophomores on a priority basis" and that members of each class would actually get rooms of about the same quality. A member noted that such a system works well and has held costs at Yale, and that "there is not an inordinate amount of roomchanging each year within Yale's Colleges...
will resume its purchases of Dominican sugar at the premium price of 5½? per pound, v. 2½? on the world market, and will assign the Dominican Republic a part of Cuba's former sugar quota. Sugar alone should add $55 million to the Dominican economy this year. Equally important, the misery-ridden land is now eligible to share in the Alliance for Progress. The day the OAS lifted its sanctions, the White House announced that an Alliance "task force" headed by Teodoro Moscoso, Latin American director of A.I.D., will speed to Santo Domingo (once Ciudad Trujillo...
...black out from G forces and can no longer see warning lights, he hears and understands a distinctive voice. A feminine voice was chosen for VIPS to avoid confusion with the voices of other crewmen. The whole system weighs only 8 Ibs., but its quick-acting brain can even assign priorities when several warnings are called for at once. If engine oil is low, Gina's voice reports the problem, but in case of more urgent danger-say, engine fire-VIPS would replace the oil warn ing with Gina's recorded fire alarm...
...have much education, usually high school at best. They aren't very ambitious to begin with, and once they get on the police force, they get a little orientation but no real training. Usually a couple of officers talk to the new man and then assign him to an older patrolman, who may be a first-class crook...
...which there is neither father nor stepfather. Almost all their homes lack books and newspapers. Young girls say that their "biggest problem" is to get home without being molested by men. Teachers struggle "tenaciously and bravely" against the adversities of home and street, but bow before the realities. They assign no homework because it is an impossibility in filthy, noisy tenements. They teach no foreign languages in junior high school because half of their pupils hardly know English-they read at sixth-grade level or below. Their immediate task is to prod sleeping children who have been kept awake...