Word: draft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draft policy also calls for a law banning "nationalist and chauvinist" organizations, which could be used against groups demanding independence from Moscow...
...Angeles record store, he recalled the opera whose title he and his friends so scornfully invoked in college. "I hit on the idea of deconstructing Madama Butterfly, and popped in on impulse. As soon as I looked at the libretto, I knew it would be fine." He finished a draft in six weeks, in Los Angeles and then in France, where he had gone to mark his first wedding anniversary...
...wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker devotees alternate five-card stud with games like Hold 'Em and Crazy Pineapple. Warns a stern sign: EACH PLAYER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING HIS OWN HAND...
...years ago that she abruptly decided to stand up to her country's male-dominated political culture. In 1969 Doi, then a lecturer at Doshisha, approached the deputy mayor of her hometown of Kobe to apologize for an inaccurate newspaper report that she had accepted a J.S.P. draft for the lower house of parliament. The official was condescending and blunt: "Wouldn't it be really stupid to run in an election you know you have no chance of winning?" Affronted, Doi snapped back, "I've decided right here, at this very moment, that I will run for this election...
...foes confirmed "their support for peaceful development in South Africa." By agreeing to that, Mandela seemed to qualify for admission to negotiations with the government under a new formulation from the ruling National Party welcoming all "people who have a commitment to peace" to join in efforts to draft a new constitution that would provide a national political role for blacks...