Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days, while he held meetings with the school's faction-torn faculty. Then Shanker shattered Donovan's efforts by barging into one of the meetings, and demanding that the union should be represented. Donovan gave up, ordered the school reopened and gave its principal the right to assign the challenged teachers to non-classroom chores. With that, Shanker called for a strike. Only 8,000 of the U.F.T.'s 55,000 members bothered to vote to approve a walkout, but most of them dutifully stayed away from class. A U.F.T. rally outside City Hall drew a surprising...
Speaker John McCormack and Majority Leader Carl Albert insist that House Democrats must stick to the party line, and they are preparing to discipline renegades severely by stripping them of seniority and desirable committee assignments if they fail to vote for Humphrey. House Republican Leader Jerry Ford has cannily avoided making any such threats to G.O.P. Congressmen. For one thing, he knows how much easier it will be for Republicans to pledge their support to Nixon than it will be for all Democrats-particularly Southerners-to promise in advance to back Humphrey. In fact, Ford is prepared to welcome defecting...
...every ten in uniform); they handle many tasks, such as clerical work and traffic direction, that elsewhere sworn policemen usually perform, thus freeing all but a few regulars for active law-enforcement duty. An elite team of 225, known as the "Top Group," has been organized for special assignments, such as nabbing organized car-theft rings or stickup artists. A "community radio watch," composed of cabbies and truck drivers who have two-way radios, is being formed to alert police to violations. Eventually, Reddin guesses, the radio watchers could add 60,000 pairs of eyes without any cost...
...case; in fact, it symbolizes an upheaval that has churned the entire record industry since the advent of rock music. It began when the established record companies wanted to capture the new sounds for their labels, but found that their over-30 staff producers-the men who select songs, assign arrangers, hire musicians and supervise recording sessions-were not tuned in. As 46-year-old John K. Maitland, President of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records, puts it: "Our Brooks Brothers suits couldn't link up with these hippie artists...
...evening wears on I feel less useful and more alienated, so I assign myself the task of keeping the mayonnaise covered. After covering it 12 times I give up and decide to write home. I wonder whether the Paris Commune was this boring...