Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main task of the new administration, to be headed by veteran New Democracy parliamentarian Tzannis Tzannetakis, will be the investigation and punishment of senior officials involved in a web of financial scandals, including the alleged embezzlement of some $210 million from the Bank of Crete. Once that is achieved, new elections will be scheduled...
...next day, I had the ugly task of dealing with a situation gone out of hand, because I hadn't been honest with myself or with anyone else. I had listened to well-intentioned but uninformed roommates instead of listening to my own feelings. Because I had been wishy-washy, I had to be twice as hurtful as I might have been had I been up front from the beginning...
Jewett should be at the center of attention this year as he pushes through a plan to partially randomize the lottery which allocates upperclass housing, despite opposition from most students and even a few house masters. Jewett will certainly be assisted in the task by Assistant Dean for the Housing System Thomas A. Dingman...
Putting together the retrospective was no easy task. Video games go in and out of fashion quickly, and many of the older models, it turned out, were close to extinction. The exhibit's organizers spent months canvassing dealers and manufacturers in an effort to locate surviving machines. "To the people we were dealing with, 1982 was ancient history," says Rochelle Slovin, the museum's director. "So many games were difficult to find. Many just got thrown out or were repainted...
...corporations live up to the expectations that we have of them as citizens," says Alice Tepper Marlin, executive director of the Manhattan-based Council on Economic Priorities. While most Americans still feel confident about the economy and business in general, consumers have become increasingly aggressive in taking corporations to task for misbehavior and irresponsibility. Among the concerns: investment in South Africa, environmental pollution, hazardous products, offensive TV programming and testing on animals. Today's campaigners for corporate accountability, unlike those in past consumer movements, are drawn from the mainstream and include activists who range from homemakers to corporate investors...