They could teach him, Walsh said, assigning his senior quarterback, Bob Brink, to help him.
"I am nature," Jackson Pollock said, assigning ego the prime-mover role awarded to deity in the 1900's.
But some industry representatives said assigning a value to life was inherently subjective, and that the recent changes were driven by the administration's pursuit of its regulatory agenda rather than scientific considerations.
California would relocate condemned inmates through the same assessment program it uses for new arrivals, Thornton said, assigning them to yards and cells based on their security threat.
Charles D Kearns, a professor of behavioral science at Pepperdine University's business school, says assigning companywide happiness to a bureaucrat is antithetical to the concept of workplace happiness.
Mr. Collins says assigning a lease is not always the most practical way to break a lease, "because it invites litigation on what is reasonable".
Using gene chips that analyze common variations in the human genome, researchers can deconstruct the chromosomes of an African-American, say, assigning each chunk of DNA to an African or European origin.
(This makes it impossible for scientists to, say, assign the healthiest mice or rats to a treatment group, which could make a drug look better than it is).
The authorities could not, they said, assign enough guards to provide se curity.
Some district attorneys said assigning their prosecutors to traffic cases was a waste of resources.
