Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordinance, which the council last summer ordered the city development office to draft, will restrict institutional expansion in the city...
...player with credentials like Stenhouse draws baseball scouts faster than an open bar. By the time the 1979 spring draft rolled around, several teams--especially the Red Sox and Yankees--had shown interest, and the leftfielder had told them he wanted to play pro ball...
...made it very clear to everyone that I would sign if I was given a fair opportunity." Stenhouse says. Read: a shot at the majors. "We had been saying up to the day of the draft (June 5) I'll be o.k. as long as Oakland doesn't draft...
Because of major league and NCAA rules, Stenhouse cannot negotiate with another team, and if he wants to return to Harvard, he'll have to wait until June to be drafted by another team. But through a complicated loophole in the regulations, the baseball commissioner has allowed him to go into the January 1980 draft, while still enrolled as an undergraduate...
...proposals would have given the U.S. the right, denied in the SALT II draft, to deploy ICBMS as large as the U.S.S.R.'s huge SS-18. The Kremlin would have balked at such a treaty revision, and that made Baker's measure a killer amendment. For this reason, the committee rejected it, but only...