"I have read all your letters," he said, "and I have already assigned people to address your problems".
That, however, ignores projections of the Congressional Budget Office, which has already assigned those savings to deficit reduction.
Mr. Obama has already assigned several of his top ground operatives to Wisconsin, aides said.
The bailout law also gave monitoring duties to the federal Office of the Comptroller General, which has already assigned staff members to the new Treasury operation.
The museum has already assigned $4 million of the $80 million to pay for a new exhibit, "The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden," which officials say will be the most comprehensive look at the nature of the nation's top job.
Some of the state attorneys general have already expressed concern, though they stopped short of suggesting that it might be necessary to launch a new case against Microsoft.Yet a new legal challenge could well come from Europe, where the EU's competition commissioner, Mario Monti, has already assigned an unusually large team to investigate Microsoft's conduct.
She is packing up her things to go, when her adviser tells her that she can't take her lab notebooks; they belong to the lab and, by the way, he has already assigned another student to continue with some of the experiments she had started.
Indeed, the ICTV has already assigned the genera Bdellomicrovirus, Chlamydiamicrovirus and Spiromicrovirus to the subfamily Gokushovirinae.
The beer company Interbrew and Microsoft, both McCann-Erickson clients, have already assigned it undisclosed projects.
In a brief note addressed "To Whom It May Concern," Mr. Ellison disclosed that he had already assigned 95 percent of his wealth to a trust and noted that he had already given hundreds of millions of dollars away for medical research and education.
