Word: tasked
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...students' commitment is anything but minimal: classes are four nights a week, two hours each night. The intensive method requires the students to miss as few days as possible, a difficult task given the inconsistent nature of their daily schedules...
...organized task force of federal, state and city agents are searching for the suspect. The task force is circulating photographs of the suspect and using witness accounts and other sources to track down the robber, said Boston FBI spokesperson Jack Cloherty...
...Israel's iron fist, the Palestinian uprising rages on, and that is exacting a price from the I.D.F. measured less in injuries than in anguish. The army faces not military defeat but moral erosion, and its troops, the young men of Israel, find themselves charged with an impossible task: end the intifadeh but be humane; solve the Palestinian problem but do not jeopardize Israel's security...
...commission within the judicial branch. The commission's recommendations have the force of law unless Congress vetoes them within six months. Justice Harry Blackmun's majority decision admitted that this setup is an "unusual hybrid" but said Congress had been "practical" in asking experts to handle a technical task...
Quayle found especially valuable the tutoring of Democrat Mondale. Among other things, Mondale urged Quayle to avoid getting bogged down as head of dozens of presidential task forces and commissions. In Mondale's view, such assignments almost inevitably turn into trivial pursuits. It is no accident that most of Quayle's tutors were right of center. His instincts are deeply conservative, and though he insists he will not act as a "spear carrier" for the right, one conservative activist views him as a potential provider of "political intelligence" about what is going on in the Administration. Bush aides, however...