After wandering around an assortment of organizations seeking long-term employment, he appeared to be a throw-in in the three-team trade last January that brought Johnny Damon to Oakland.
Political science professor Elinor Ostrom has called the cleanup of Europe's Rhine, brought about by a multinational assortment of organizations and local governments, an example of successful commons management.
The interview form for canteen managers contained questions on the availability of food products, opening hours of the canteen, pricing policy, who will receive profits from the foods sold, and canteen policies, for example if there are agreements on the assortment with the catering organization.
Happily, Los Angeles is an excellent movie town, with an assortment of cinephile-oriented organizations that make it easy to beat the blockbuster blues and blahs: the Cinefamily and the New Beverly Cinema, a revival house revived by Quentin Tarantino.
And he might well have been, given his tendency to say and write what he thought about the kinds of people who worked inside organizations — "an assortment of half-wits, nincompoops, and Neanderthals like Don Drysdale and Don Zimmer [who] are not only allowed to pontificate on whatever strikes them, but are actually solicited and employed to do this".
Ellman co-founded RRE in 1994, and while these days he looks primarily at fintech and robotics from his perch in New York, he has been involved with a wide assortment of companies and organizations over the years, from Business Insider (sold to Axel Springer) and Proofpoint (now publicly traded), to the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
But the question that seizes many Russians and Westerners alike is whether Russia's weak democratic institutions -- a nascent business class, free press and ever-changing assortment of political parties and organizations -- are strong enough to resist the undemocratic, authoritarian streak that critics ascribe to the former K.G.B. official who is now president.
Trump has not backed off his racist and xenophobic comments about Mexicans and other groups since an assortment of sports leagues and organizations -- including NASCAR, the PGA Tour, ESPN and NBC -- broke ties with him or moved events last summer.
From time to time, a statement or a petition is signed by a group of people, though they usually take pains to present themselves as an assortment of individuals, rather than as an organization.
