Word: tasks
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Sitting in his new office, the new acting dean does not look the part of the overworked administrator. After a two-week vacation in Cape Cod and an uneventful transition, Rosovsky appears well-rested and seems undaunted by the task ahead...
Sitting in his new office, the new acting dean does not look the part of the overworked administrator. After a two-week vacation in Cape Cod and an uneventful transition, Rosovsky appears well-rested and seems undaunted by the task ahead...
Sitting in his new office, the new acting dean does not look the part of the overworked administrator. After a two-week vacation in Cape Cod and an uneventful transition, Rosovsky appears well-rested and seems undaunted by the task ahead...
...Republican presidential task force, a fund-raising arm of the G.O.P., has been sending out $25 checks to nearly 700,000 Americans. All the recipients have to do is endorse them and deposit them in their banks. However, there is a tiny little catch, as an accompanying letter explains. The deposited check gives the task force the right to withdraw $12.50 a month from the individual's account for what it calls candidate escrow funding. Lucky recipients of the checks are allowed to exit the program after two payments have been extracted -- there goes the $25 -- but they are encouraged...
...Reserving some places in schools, or companies, or even plays for those who are less privileged seems an admirable way of redressing imbalances. But privilege cannot be interpreted in terms of race without making some damningly racist assumptions. And rectifying the injustices of our grandfathers is no easy task, least of all in a country made up of refugees and immigrants and minorities of one, many of whom have lived through the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge, the unending atrocities of El Salvador. Sympathy cannot be legislated any more than kindness...