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By assigning this $100 million project to the Corps within days after Katrina came ashore, FEMA ensured schools could open with temporary classrooms in place and communities could get back to work. While this Corps assignment is complete, FEMA will continue to work with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency on permanent repairs and restoration of facilities.

He's a proxy. If this man would have been called up that day, he would have accepted the assignment in a heartbeat.

He's the only second baseman we have and we have to get him going. He's been swinging the bat pretty well (during a rehab assignment for Norfolk), and we'll get him right in there. ... We wouldn't call him up if he wasn't ready.

They are very perimeter-oriented, much like they were last year. We can't sleep at all. We have a very small margin for error, because if we miss an assignment we're likely going to give up a 3. Everyone needs to know their assignments.

They were offered $500 to complete the assignment and $50 for each student they administered it to. Some of them, as soon as they realized what was happening, said, 'You're asking me to be a scab. Forget it'.

It was measured and copied and photographed, and then someone would get the assignment to replicate a part, like an altimeter.

The homework assignment is for legislative leaders to go back to their caucuses and see what the level of support is." ()

The end came off the edge and I missed an assignment there. I didn't get my guy.

You can't get caught up in what they're trying to do. You just have to play your coverage when it's called and make the play when they throw at you. It doesn't matter if they come out and throw it 50 times or run it 50 times. You have to play your assignment and execute.

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

It's more of an assignment thing with Kendrick, but eventually he and Antonio will play. They aren't ready to play right now.

It's much like the question about injuries - it has to be considered, it has to be brought up. The committee member who has the monitoring assignment for that team and for that conference would be obliged to bring that to the attention of the committee.

They do a lot of great things running the ball. We have to play good assignment football and hope to slow them down. I don't think we can stop them.

It's just the little things, really. It's really nothing that major, maybe an assignment here, maybe another step you take there.

It's a dangerous offense. They force a defense to be assignment oriented. You can't slide off and help because then you will get hurt.

It's a combination of things. Sometimes we've missed blocks. Sometimes we've missed an assignment and didn't block a guy that we should have blocked.

I believe -- and certainly from everything I've been told about him -- that he's an honorable enough man so that he will carry out his assignment with ability and with care.

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

However, it was essential that the seconded employee retain a foreign residence to which he could return once the South African assignment was completed.

Ideology of assignment of agency has the tendency to target one set of people who have a long history of antagonist belief systems.

I can't think of a more important assignment for the FBI or the U.S.,

The consistency of our performance, and assignment performance, was greatly improved over last week.