What interested the researchers most, however, was that teams that did well on one assignment usually did well on all the others.
On one assignment, Bob invited me to crash at his ample colonial home on Kingston's Hope Road, which was quite a commune, with an ever-revolving cast.
On one assignment or another, the gunman has wasted a few suckers in alleys like this, but not many.
On one assignment, she looked for an advertising agency to promote a series of Internet newsletters published by her employer.
On one assignment, he noted that many families he was visiting had been struggling to care for elderly relatives.
He was previously an editor at The Wall Street Journal and, on one assignment, lived in Hong Kong while helping to launch The Asian Wall Street Journal.
On one assignment after another, most recently the fighting in Afghanistan, she said, "even the last holdouts are realizing they can't shoot a story like this without it".
I was sent on one assignment to investigate a practice called orgasmic meditation.
For a decoy on one assignment, it scores 1 if it satisfies at least one pairwise contact in this 'ambiguous' assignment, and 0 otherwise.
Is it better to focus your attention on that one assignment, ignore all your other responsibilities, and turn in a perfect product?
Using this approach, it takes < 30 ms to solve one assignment problem on a conventional laptop.
