Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maguire, the government's consultant firm for the study, has turned over to the General Services Administration more than 800 pages of draft and is helping the GSA edit it, Grant said...
...unratified national Equal Rights Amendment. In Colorado environmentalists pushed through a measure requiring voter approval for any future nuclear detonations that might be set off to exploit the state's rich energy reserves. In Massachusetts 24 towns voted on whether or not complete amnesty should be granted to draft dodgers and deserters. The tally: only eight towns approved, but the overall count gave the measure, an expression of local opinion with no force of law, a 93,230-to-88,980 plurality...
...freighter captain when he was only 22, Gibson later became a senior vice president of Grace Lines, then worked briefly for an international consulting firm before being appointed head of the Maritime Administration in 1969. In that post, he helped to draft legislation that made more U.S. shipbuilders eligible for Government subsidies...
This year's letter is circulating through the corridors of power in draft form, and is divided into three parts: a discussion of last year's $1.4 million deficit, a section of this year's projected $2.5 million deficit, and an assessment of the prospects for next year...
Morgan said she felt the statement had never really progressed beyond draft form and that it had been one "without thought." She added that it had been "absolutely disowned" by the council as a whole, even though the group may not have "agreed totally" with Rosovsky's method of approaching the problem...