Word: tasks
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...applicants, the sheer volume of applications is a formidable task in itself. Leverett House pre-med tutor Cheryl L. Dorsey says the average student applies to 12 schools, and many apply to more...
...Misery and contains cusswords besides, she forces him to burn it. Learning that his latest Misery novel will be the last (he has killed her off), Annie forces Paul to write a new one, rescuing her beloved character from the grave. Finding that Paul has tried to escape this task, she sweetly explains she is obliged to rebreak his legs and does so as calmly as if she were administering aspirin...
...problems ahead will test all the skills of the new government in Bonn. The most pressing task is to determine how to pay for unification. Current projections call for an expenditure of roughly $55 billion annually for the next four years for building infrastructure and providing social support in the eastern part of the country. In the months leading up to the election, Kohl resisted a tax hike, preferring instead to rely on spending cuts, the sale of public assets in western and eastern Germany, and large-scale borrowing. Few expect that the government will be able to follow this...
...even the most vocal critics of the new plan have been assuaged by the person who will put it into practice. This new "programming czar" has more power than any predecessor but also a daunting task: maneuvering through the byzantine PBS bureaucracy. "What we wanted was a Solomon," says PBS president Bruce Christensen. "Someone with extraordinary political skills as well as program judgment. And someone who was willing to take the heat...
Also on the task force are: Gregory Nagy, master of Currier House; Ann Pellegrini, resident tutor in North House; Jessica R. Saalfield '92; David Smith; Muriel M. Spence, director of policy analysis in the Office of Government and Community Affairs; Tucker; Viggiani; and Jeffrey Wolcowitz, assistant dean for undergraduate education...