The assignment from the unidentified teacher was designed to flex students' "persuasive writing" skills.
Northolt is also unusual in that it has its own meteorologists on assignment from the Met Office.
While working as a marketing writer early in my career, I got an unusual assignment from a technology company.
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You can hear Angus Crawford's full programme, 'The Schoolboy Beggars of Sengal' on this week's Assignment from the BBC World Service.
Texas Attorney General John Cornyn wants to know how five trial lawyers who stand to share billions of dollars in fees for handling the state's tobacco settlement got the cushy assignment from the state.
We almost missed it at Sony's pint-sized booth at the annual week-long CEA event in New York City -- the camera, which has yet to get an official name and model number assignment from Tokyo, is massively smaller than yesterday's snaps may have implied.
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Inside was an assortment of fireworks, a jar of Vaseline and a homework assignment sheet from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, among other items.
When the backpack was later found, inside it was a UMass-Dartmouth homework assignment sheet from a class Tsarnaev was taking, the FBI said.
According to the affidavit, it contained the emptied fireworks, a jar of Vaseline and a UMass-Dartmouth homework assignment sheet from a class in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently enrolled.
And you can hear more on this story in Assignment: Escape from Sinai on the BBC World Service on Thursday 7 March at 0905 GMT.
Le Coz is just back from an assignment to build a media operations center in Port-au-Prince.
On January 27, 2004, our two-car convoy was returning to Baghdad from an assignment in Hillah, in the south of the country.
"It's baffling why she, a trained and experienced security director, would be removed from this assignment with two Olympics under her belt, " said Hardwick's attorney, Randolph McLaughlin.
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His service in the United States Army from 19431977 included an assignment with the Office of Strategic Services that involved parachuting into occupied France to work with the Resistance to support the Allied invasion.
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As part of the FDA's domestic protein surveillance assignment, 63 samples of protein from Arizona, California, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Iowa and Minnesota have not tested positive for melamine yet, but 23 of those test results are pending.
While he describes the Jyllands-Posten episode as a "controversy of the internet age, " Chappatte -- who has just returned from a graphic reporting assignment on urban violence in Guatemala -- remains enthusiastic about the potential of cyberspace.
That sign, a replica of an Irish road sign, was given to me by a colleague, Mark Wynne, who took my place in a forthcoming speaking assignment in Ireland when I retired from the Dallas Fed in November 2004.
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In chatting up a trio of interns for this story, one of them asked me for an assignment, since she'd heard nothing from the two editors who were supposed to be supervising her.
NPR's West Africa correspondent, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, has just been on assignment in the region, and she joins us now from her base in Senegal.
And if I had any doubt about how much government has to learn from all of you, then the homework assignment you all completed would have certainly convinced me otherwise.
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New York designated LHP Clay Rapada for assignment to make room for Overbay, whose contract was selected from the minors.
Federal laws clearly prohibit military retirees from assigning their pensions and appear to prohibit the assignment of private pensions, too.
But Grutter's longevity has been in doubt since its author, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, was succeeded by Justice Samuel Alito, who joined the court's four other conservatives in a 2007 ruling that forbade public-school districts from promoting diversity through race-conscious pupil-assignment plans.
Another, from 1982, invalidated a Washington state measure that prohibited assignment of public school pupils to attain racially balanced campus enrollments.
As we recall from the season 2 finale, Jon is actually on assignment, trying to learn why Mance has amassed an army, and he killed the ranger Qhorin Halfhand to gain the trust of the wildlings.
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Today his assignment is to use his budding cachet as a campus "tastemaker" to get two songs from the latest Musicblitz compilation CD heard on campus and to promote the Musicblitz Web site.
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If you're in the people-selection business-in, say, a personnel or college admissions department-your job assignment can trigger a certain amount of cognitive dissonance, that being the mental disarray that comes from simultaneously holding two contradictory positions.
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