There is an official film, an official song, official merchandise, an official beer, an assortment of official snack foods, official money-lenders and, in all probability, an official solvent-free extra strong clear adhesive for wood, metal and ceramics.
The mission created a swirl of excitement in the neighborhood and left a series of questions for an assortment of officials.
Democracy is still a low-tech, old-economy business: ballots are marked by hand -- with crosses or stamps or fingerprints -- and then counted by hand, with an assortment of officials supposed to guarantee impartiality looking on.
Reacting quickly, a wide assortment of American officials, all the way up to President Obama, condemned the actions.
On Jan . 8 Exxon took the first step towards suing those who orchestrated climate change lawsuits in California by asking the Tarrant County District Court to allow it to question an assortment of government officials and a Hagens Berman lawyer.
This assortment of elected officials had decided to offer a fresh show of support for the aerial and ground bombardment campaign currently being waged by the Israeli government.
The popular talk show host was an early and avid disseminator of the reporting that led to Nixon's fall, interviewing an amazing assortment of government officials and pundits (oh, Gore Vidal, do tell us more about everything) pretty much from the moment the break-in was reported.
As for Mr. Johnson's hero, Jun Do, he goes from being an instrument of the state — kidnapping an assortment of people on official orders and eavesdropping on foreign radio transmissions — to becoming one of its victims.
The bloody intervention began as a bombing campaign, and has since called upon a fragmented assortment of fighters — some official members of the coalition, some mercenaries, and many local forces — that are aligned against the Houthi expansion.
Other "China Hands" — an assortment of journalists, American Foreign Service officials, and soldiers who succeeded in meeting the Communists — preferred Mao to Chiang Kai-shek, who, though corrupt and unpopular, was receiving enormous amounts of military aid from the United States.
Joining Mr. Rubin in the exercise were his onetime protege Lawrence W. Summers, playing his old role as Treasury secretary; former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart; and an assortment of former government officials and Kennedy School professors.
