He was hired as a repo man after he successfully tackled a bogus assignment to find a man who had skipped out on his car payments.
On my first working day in my apartment, I set up a business line, ordered America Online and a fax machine and sat down at my laptop to tackle a magazine assignment.
The injury-enforced absences of all three full-backs of first-team merit - Mark Wilson, Lee Naylor and Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe - means that Celtic will almost certainly have to tackle a hazardous assignment with four central defenders forming the back line.
A courtly Southerner who was not above thickening his accent to persuade a Yankee colleague to condense a lead paragraph, rewrite a headline or tackle a new assignment, Mr. Lee rose through the ranks at The Times as a reporter and a foreign correspondent, and made an unusually smooth transition to management.
Tackle an assignment that has problems or issues.
When you delegate work, you're not just freeing time up for yourself - you're also giving your helper a chance to practice a new skill or tackle a new kind of assignment.
Mr. Miller, whose favorite pastime was chopping wood, tackled his assignment with gusto, prosecuting organized crime leaders and chasing Hoffa through four indictments, three trials and four appeals, which ended in 1966 with the Supreme Court upholding Hoffa's convictions on charges of jury-tampering and fraud.
(Smith) Classical Music ★ ACME (Friday and Saturday) Also known as the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, this intrepid young band of hardy explorers tackles a pair of diverse assignments in these concerts.
On "Avatar," Horner tackled the complex assignment of finding a sonic treatment for the alien world of Cameron's imagination, Pandora, via ethereal choirs and ethnic instruments.
Of course, not everyone can be at a newsworthy scene, but anyone can tackle a topic from iReport's Assignment Desk.
