In apportioning blame among its four main characters, "Open Hearts" is scrupulously even-handed.
In apportioning two-thirds of the blame to the company, he wrote that the executive had acted "recklessly".
In apportioning bandwidth to nodes (countries, regions, or continents) we adopted the convention of assigning one-half of dyad bandwidth to each node in the pair.
In apportioning person-years to specific age-race-sex-and calendar period categories for each base, once an individual was stationed at Camp Lejeune (e.g., some began at Camp Pendleton and later transferred to Camp Lejeune), all subsequent person-years were assigned to Camp Lejeune.
"I am not interested in apportioning blame," Nhan says.
Reflecting anger and alarm in the White House about the sudden, unwelcome crisis, the official was blunt in apportioning blame.
With elections coming soon, there seems little hope of a breakthrough in apportioning blame for the killing of the 92 people who died.
His first difficult decision is whether or not to launch an appeal against the size of the awards and, possibly, the judge's methodology in apportioning the damages.
Bureau officials have agreed to release the more specific data several months earlier than usual to let states and localities consider it in apportioning districts for 2011 and 2012 races.
"There is no point in apportioning blame for what is happening," said lead author and geologist, Mark Williams, with the University of Leicester, since humans "didn't deliberately engineer this situation".
Though Senate Democrats have pledged to be equitable in apportioning resources, no one knows for sure how big a chunk of the Senate's budget will go to Republicans; transition talks are still taking place among leaders of both parties.
