Word: draft
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...years ago, the Committee on the Library advocated keeping Widener open Sundays, but budgetary red tape prevented the extended hours, according to the council's draft of the letter...
Some have speculated that Cuomo might see himself as the man the party would turn to in the event of a deadlocked contest. Asked whether he would accept a draft, Cuomo smiled and said, "I will take a draft to the Yankees, to the Mets. A draft for President is not conceivable." Cuomo has said that ever since he got hit in the head by a baseball while playing in the minor leagues, "I've gotten very good about keeping my eye on the ball." Last week the old centerfielder stepped back and let the tempting pitch...
...opportunity to influence the way Harvard enforces the standards it sets for students. The council voted Sunday night to approve the plan if the Faculty accepts eight amendments the council proposed. The council should revoke this provisional approval and demand real reform. The council should call for--and help draft--a law code that attempts to reconcile the competing interests of the Harvard community. Then the council should respectfully but firmly advance the code to administrators...
Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey plans to introduce this week the most comprehensive national-service plan yet: a bill that would draft all American men and women ages 18 to 25 for one year of service in either the military or approved civilian projects. Oklahoma Democrat Dave McCurdy will submit a proposal for a voluntary program that would require applicants for federal college loans to spend a year in national service first. Neither of the bills is likely to pass in this session. But they will help stimulate a debate that has been under way since the draft...
...loan. Mason was aiming at something close to English real ale, though he knew there would have to be some touch-up carbonation to accommodate the colonials' taste for fizz. Beer drinkers in Vermont and New Hampshire, the intended markets, bought a lot of bottles and not much draft beer, so Catamount would be bottled without additives, and, most important, there would be no pasteurization, a process that gives beer shelf life but that, Mason and other purists feel, "heat shocks" the beer and ruins its flavor. (Control of bacteria is not a factor -- the alcohol does that -- but cold...