Word: draft
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...elderly, tutoring children. Proponents of the idea still disagree as to what extent the program should be mandatory or voluntary. Yet there is growing talk these days among politicians of various stripes about instituting in the U.S. some form of national service, a program that would recruit or draft young people for a year or so, allowing them to choose military or civilian work. "We have to try to instill a sense of service in the country," says Morris Janowitz, a sociologist at the University of Chicago...
...surprised if you see his name surface in the mid-to-later rounds of this summer's professional draft. Playing in the Big Five Conference (which features Villanova and Temple among others) as well as in the Ivies, Bromwell has received a good deal of exposure over the past three years...
...council failure to represent the interest of its constituents may cost students accused of wrong-doing a fair shake if a plan to revamp the College disciplinary system gains approval. Eisert and former council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87 helped draft the proposal, which would establish a student-faculty committee to hear cases that, in effect, would write a code of common laws with each verdict...
This will be in sharp contrast to Casey, who resented having to testify on Capitol Hill and was notorious for his mumblings and evasions. An unpublished Intelligence Committee draft on Iran found that Casey was "less than candid" in his testimony just before his hospitalization. Casey's penchant for hiding clandestine operations also led to clashes with Congress. The 1984 mining of Nicaraguan harbors, for instance, was a foreign relations disaster that spurred the legislators to cut off aid to the contras...
...sold off more than 100 businesses, and last year he cut ITT's work force by 100,000, or 44%, and slashed headquarters staff from about 850 to 350. Says Araskog: "Corporate executives have to learn to do things for themselves. Pick up the telephone if it rings. Draft their own memos...