Word: draft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later received a second phone call from a different person who said, "How's the draft in there...
Patterson, who is a starting defensive back onthe varsity football team, then returned to hisroom, informed his roommate of what he had seen,and placed the call to Williams. His roommate thenfollowed with his prank call asking about the"draft...
...warheads "which by unilateral decision have been released from cooperative programs." That leaves two points still to be resolved: the timetable for scrapping missiles and warheads, and the method of verifying that they are in fact destroyed. Both sides considered these problems unlikely to hold up completion of a draft treaty...
...than the strict compensation system in place since 1977. Over an entire decade of free enterprise, it has brought about the emancipation of a solitary St. Louis defensive back named Norm Thompson. No matter the player, pro football's unique partner-owners have been disinclined to fork over high draft choices for the rights to their brethren's superstar. It is probably fair to say that the owners have competed more strenuously against alien forces like the defunct United States Football League than against one another...
Amenable only to slight adjustment in the free-agent restrictions, management meanwhile proposes automatic rookie and second-year salaries of $60,000 and $70,000 on top of uniform college draft bonuses ranging from $500,000 for the first pick ($400,000 for the second, $350,000 for the third) down to $5,000 for the last. The better to reward veterans, says the Management Council's long-standing director, Jack Donlan. The union is cynical. Says Wisconsin Senate-hopeful Ed Garvey, who broke former Raider Lineman Gene Upshaw into the job of labor leader: "In 1982 I honestly...