To soften their image, the security forces recently began assigning women to Kimpo duty.

Increasingly, judges began assigning the overflow cases to private lawyers willing to take the work for a set fee, so-called 18-b attorneys.

The city began assigning welfare mothers - and some fathers - to jobs only last month.

In 1825, the College began simply assigning new students to one society or the other.

The school and Eick also began assigning video projects so that students no longer have the energy to make fight videos.

About two years ago, as part of downsizing, the company began assigning one assistant to three or four executives.

Zealous educational institutions, noting that real burnout doesn't begin until elementary school, began assigning homework to 5-year-olds so they could stay up late, too.

When coat of arms became popular and profitable dealers began assigning arms to names that sounded the same.

The butcher finds that he has only three bullets in his gun, and begins assigning them to each of his various enemies.

They were backed up by in-house "area editors" who began assigning articles to art historians and critics.