1.   All crude leaving Russia must still pass through a central state-owned pipeline system, and the government assigns oil companies quotas for access to it.

2.   Here, the government would assign one person to one or more categories, depending on the combination of races listed by that person.

3.   Interest on the loans will be reported through taxpayer identification numbers, which the federal government assigns.

4.   Spitzer said his office has eight lawyers working on the cases, compared to the dozens the federal government has assigned to the litigation.

5.   Ten years ago, when the government still assigned jobs, the Communist Party made sure that women were well represented in companies and factories.

6.   The court has permitted the government to assign computers to parochial schools and to pick up some of the student transportation costs.

7.   The government has assigned them a new apartment, but it is too far away.

8.   The government is assigning more auditors and investigators to health care cases.

9.   They also anticipate being able to decide where to put branches, instead of having the government assign the sites.

10.   Two years later, the federal government assigned UNOS, a nonprofit company based in Richmond, Va., to lock the system down tight.