Word: tasked
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...incoming chief said that his greatest task will be to continue to maintain the department's quality in a tightening economic climate. "So far, the city has been able to finance the improvement of the department very well," he said...
Seven years after the Pope ended that purgatorial receivership, the Jesuits appear to have won John Paul's approval. Confronted with the task of re- evangelizing the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe and the newly tolerant Soviet Union, the Pope has called upon the Society of Jesus to direct the task of training priests and rebuilding the long-oppressed clergy of these sensitive areas. Next week Jesuit experts will be gathering in Rome to plan how to go about that job. For starters, East Europeans are being brought to Rome to receive special training at the Pontifical Gregorian University...
...world, has not halted the erosion of his position at home. Old hands at this game, like former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, have warned the new crowd not to take over too many duties of the diplomatic corps, lest heads of state be confronted with the impossible task of responding to every nation that has a complaint...
...Pope assigns them a strategic task and signals his renewed confidence in the church's biggest and most influential men's order...
...accuracy of those memories -- more than four decades later -- as well as the validity of a German-issued identity card supplied by the Soviet Union. Though Teicholz persuasively unravels Demjanjuk's alibi (he claims he was a German prisoner of war at the time), the author handles the task a bit too eagerly, often telling the reader what to make of the evidence, which piles up "like the corpses in the pit." In fact, some observers express lingering doubts about whether Demjanjuk was really Ivan the Terrible...