However, the stagflation of the 1970s inspired politicians to assign another task: promoting maximum employment.

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Or you can assign the task to an employee.

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He said the group agreed to assign chief executives to task forces covering those issues in coming weeks, as well as infrastructure, energy, and corporate taxation, a flash point for multinationals, whose executives have fought administration proposals to raise taxes on overseas earnings.

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The MPs say the priority should be to answer what they call "the English Question", a task they would assign to a "preconvention".

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