apportioning

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The White House says it intends to replace the current system, a random lottery apportioning available H-1B slots among all applicants, with one favoring applications to fill the highest-paid slots.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

Without apportioning blame, the head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, warned of the safety risks of such attacks.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2024

But as the warming climate intensifies the state’s cycles of flood and drought, its system for apportioning water is under strain.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

In 1948 that apportioning made sense because fission and fusion seemed promising, and no one much saw the need for efficiency.

From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023

Ernest drew up a preliminary list of first-year grants covering almost every cyclotron in the country save his own, apportioning $10,000 each for Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, and Princeton.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik