"Nowadays your typical classroom has pods of desks of four or five or seven kids all facing each other and kids are working in countless group assignments," she said.
He sat at the dinner table with an open book many nights, and his assignments provoked countless arguments about whether he had time to go to karate lessons.
It has long been accused of being the hidden hand in countless school and university assignments.
On one of her first assignments abroad, she spent countless days poring over the books of a struggling Kenyan microfinance firm.
That account of the officers' assignment that night was repeated countless times in news articles.
He has covered presidential elections, books and publishing, and countless other topics in a career given mostly to general assignment reporting.
The assignment also featured a robo-signer named Jodi Sobotta, who signed countless documents as a JPMorgan Chase officer despite being employed by Lender Processing Services, a document manufacturing company.
DEPENDING on your point of view, the noted Canadian director Robert Lepage has taken on either the most enviable assignment in international opera or a no-win venture guaranteed to enrage countless Wagner lovers.
"Whether it's the oceans, the environment, science, human rights, broadband assignments, drugs and thugs, civil aviation — it's a huge range of issues on which there are countless treaties and agreements that all require management.
And while his own writing output until now consisted of a few assignments for Slate, which he never filed, his first book — a sprawling comic memoir of a life spent battling countless neuroses and defying expectations of everyone close to him — earned him a $750,000 advance.
