Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown expressed confidence in the ability of his fifth-round draft choice to make the squad...
...decision should spring an extra $5 billion in water-pollution funds if localities can draft acceptable programs. The other big chunk of Nixon-blocked appropriations was $9.1 billion in highway funds. Two weeks ago, President Ford freed $2 billion of the total as a recession-fighting measure. The court's reasoning last week does not apply to the road controversy, but the betting is that the Justices will also strike down Nixon's highway-fund blocking when the argument reaches them...
...that promise. From his desk in Lisbon's pink stucco Belém Palace, President Francisco da Costa Gomes announced that the government had set April 12 as the date for Portugal's first free elections in 49 years. The balloting for a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution, Costa Gomes said on TV, marked "a fundamental milestone" on the path to democracy. Cautioning voters against extremists of both the left and right, he added that "not to vote is to betray the people. Don't be ashamed of your lack of political culture, which...
...afford some meruline slaughter; even the Audubon Society agrees that the pests must be controlled. Besides, notes Mayor Atkins, furious at the New Yorkers who have thwarted the extermination plan, starlings spread through the U.S. from New York City.* To vent his frustration, he wryly asked Hopkinsville attorneys to draft a request for an injunction staying New York City from killing its rats...
...draft will never have to be written. On Feb. 8 a U.S. district court in Washington, B.C., ruled that the Army could proceed with its "blackbird control program," and last week the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld that decision. Now all the Army has to do is hope for a prolonged cold spell...