Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Army railroad engineers were called in to operate some of the idled trains. The fledgling Cabinet of Premier Carlos Arias Navarro threatened to draft the strikers into the armed forces, thus making them liable for courts-martial if they disobeyed back-to-work orders. At week's end the subway workers settled for an immediate $455 raise and a promise of further negotiations, but they could go out again...
...could happen to Brayton at any moment: in early December, the player-to-be-named-later from the Ferguson Jenkins trade was still unnamed, and it was being conjectured that a minor league reliever would be going to Texas. "Hell, it might be me." Further, there is the winter draft to weather--a process where any team can lift a player from another team providing they move him up to a higher league. Brayton didn't get grabbed for either of these, but the most basic question still lies open: not knowing "at what level I'm being protected...
...film critic works very hard, says Rich, who often stays up all night writing a second or third draft of his column. "And going to screenings is not like going to the movies. First of all, you see a lot of bad movies--the great movies are fun, a lot of it is a lark, but a lot of it's shit. Sometimes it's like combat duty." Rich feels most successful, most satisfied with the way his life is going, when he is writing well. When he is writing badly, all the townhouses, finances, telephone-answering machines...
...franchise, they are not free to sell their skills elsewhere. In the N.F.L. and the N.B.A., they can bargain with other teams-but there is a catch. If a man jumps to a new team in football, the new owners must compensate the old with a player or draft choice of equal value. If the teams cannot strike a deal, the commissioner has the power to set the terms himself. (Hence the name Rozelle rule, for Commissioner Pete Rozelle.) The N.B.A. has a similar, though unwritten, arrangement...
Widener - Tremendous if you smoke a pipe or feel like a fossil. Actually, it does sound impressive to say you studied here, and there are a few good stalls on 'B' level, but be on the lookout for World War I draft evaders who have yet to find their...