Word: draft
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...ordered all insurgents to be turned over to civil rather than military courts for trial. But during the Civil War, as he struggled to hold the nation together, President Lincoln introduced preventive detention and military justice for thousands who opposed the war, including hundreds arrested in the bloody Draft Riots in New York City and elsewhere. This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief Justice Roger Taney threw out the case of one John Merryman, a Southern sympathizer who had been convicted of treason by a military court. Merryman appealed to Justice Taney, who found...
Writing in the current issue of Science, Schmidt and Metallurgy Professor Donald Avery, both of Brown University, report that as long as 2,000 years ago, the Haya people were producing medium-carbon steel in preheated, forced-draft furnaces. A technology this sophisticated was not developed again until nearly 19 centuries later, when German-born Metallurgist Karl Wilhelm Siemens, who is generally credited with using an open-hearth furnace, produced the first high-grade carbon steel...
Carter blamed defeat of labor law revision this year on "a massive, expensive, distorted propaganda effort. I personally helped draft every single paragraph of the labor law bill," Carter said, denying charges that it had been "a grab for power by the unions...
...Committee is continuing work on the final version of a tax cut bill. The House version of the tax cut proposal, which would reduce taxes by $16.3 billion, is being enlarged and reworked by the Senate committee in order to provide more relief to lower income families. A final draft of the tax cut bill will have to be worked out in a House-Senate conference...
...there can be no doubt that the star athlete can and does exist at Harvard. They've never manufactured jocks at Cambridge, and they're not about to start now. "Athletic scholarship" is not in the vocabulary, "first round draft pick" a rare species...