Word: draft
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...zero as well -- dismantling an entire class of weapons already deployed, in exchange for NATO's altering future plans. As members of the Administration themselves admitted at the time, it was like asking the Super Bowl champs to trade their All-Pro front line for two future-round draft choices. The result, predictably and perhaps intentionally, was no deal...
...adult Anton (Derek de Lint) tries to bury his past and his feelings. Tellingly, he becomes an anaesthetist. But history keeps intruding upon his life. The Korean War draft, the 1956 anti-communist riots in Amsterdam, the funeral of a famous Resistance leader in 1967, and the present-day anti-nuclear movement all strike Anton close to home, figuratively and literally...
...summit meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the U.S. and its largest trading partner appear close to a historic juncture in their immense economic relationship (value of 1986 commerce: $129 billion). After a year of negotiation, officials in Washington and Ottawa seem confident they can produce a draft agreement by autumn that will completely eliminate tariff barriers between the two countries over the next decade or so. Reagan also took a modest -- for most Canadians, far too modest -- step toward alleviating another deep Canadian concern. The President said he would "consider" negotiating an accord to control acid-rain pollution...
...White House has a deadline of Oct. 4 for presenting a draft agreement to Congress. After that, Reagan and Mulroney will have the perhaps tougher job of convincing a contentious flock of U.S. and Canadian regional interests that the deal is a good one for all. Only then will it be clear that two close friends have truly created what Reagan last week hailed as a "pioneering agreement worthy of a pioneering people...
...have a long, long interest in this burning issue of justice," says Pippert about his research for the book. Although he finished writing the first draft before his sojourn in the Middle East, Pippert, who has written four previous books, says he held up publication to include "the whole new set of issues which a foreign assignment presented...