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Rosalynn Carter sat in on cabinet meetings, yet when she toured South America, reporter Judy Woodruff (now of CNN, then with NBC) sneered: "You were handed an assignment simply because you're the wife of the president.

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Silverman, who was born in Jersey City and raised in Queens, was twenty-three years old, and he had been handed a plum assignment from his editor, Marty Berg: cover the Dodgers Openingg Day.

In November 1945, six months after Germany's surrender to the Allies, a 24-year-old Army combat engineer named Harold Burson was handed a new assignment: to cover the upcoming Nuremberg trial for the American Forces Network.

In the past month, I was told by an Air Force adviser on targeting and the Pentagon consultant on terrorism, the Iran planning group has been handed a new assignment: to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in Iraq.

During the Vietnam War George W. Bush was handed a cushy assignment in the Texas National Guard thanks to his powerful connections.

But despite that interest and despite outranking both Bucshon and Lummis in seniority on the committee—Hultgren was left without a leadership position when the assignments were handed out.

There was a tough-guy challenge in the way epic assignments were handed, like untamable horses, to Hollywood men whose gift for intimacy hinted at a delicate emotional constitution.

When the Council office and committee assignments were handed out, there was no committee chairmanship for Albanese, despite his years of seniority..

When the Council office and committee assignments were handed out, there was no committee chairmanship for Albanese, despite his years of seniority.

The curriculum in spring 2014 consisted of mini-lectures, demonstrations of and practice with Avida-ED in class, and assignments that were handed out to students in class the day that activities occurred.

The gaffe was embarrassing for Friedman, who'd been handed the swimming assignment only days before the Games began when a colleague was sidelined with health problems.

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