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Under the new order, Turner will get "full and exclusive authority" over preparing the intelligence community's budgets. He will also operate through a new National Intelligence Tasking Center-made up of officers from the entire intelligence community-to assign intelligence projects to each agency and coordinate their activities. But each department will retain operational authority over its own intelligence arms. Thus while the Tasking Center can order the Pentagon's National Reconnaissance Office to continue operating spy-in-the-sky satellites, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown will control the office's day-to-day operations...
Richard J. Bradley, executive director of NEASC, said Ford will assign commission members to the teams that visit colleges. The commission evaluates each New England college every ten years...
...between one and 20 years; the actual time the felon serves would depend on prison and parole authorities' judgment of his progress toward rehabilitation. That, says Illinois Criminologist Hans Mattick, "made drama schools out of prisons and actors out of prisoners." Under the Illinois plan, the judge will assign a specifically legislated term-two, three or four years for a robbery felony, depending on circumstances. The convict's sentence can be reduced only by accumulation of "good time"-a day off for each day of trouble-free prison life. Argues former Minnesota Corrections Commissioner David Fogel, considered...
Under the existing law, the Federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare will assign transfers to each medical school from a group of foreign-trained Americans...
...enough," is an oft-heard lament; so is "They don t push you enough." Senior Brenda Steward is having no trouble fielding trigonometry, chemistry and British literature along with a 30-hour-a-week waitress job at a local restaurant called the Green Bandit. Says she: "Teachers don't assign homework; they don't believe in it." (The teachers' version, however, is that many students will not do homework when it is assigned.) Adds Senior Dennis Campbell: "It's so easy to get through here. I could make it by going to classes just twice a week...