Word: draft
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...center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (P.M.D.B.) won a landslide victory that gave it majority control of the 559-member congress and at least 20 of the country's 23 state governorships. The outcome ensured that the P.M.D.B. will also have a dominant voice when legislators draft a new constitution next year...
Weakland is best known as the head of the committee that wrote a pastoral letter on moral failings in U.S. capitalism. The final draft of that long- pending document received sharp criticism from the conservative laity for placing too much dependence on Government remedies. But last week in Washington the draft won lopsided approval, indicating that the bishops' social activism will continue unabated, whatever the other tensions within the church...
...involve minor aspects of the text that do not interfere with the right of the authors to present their opinions and interpretations or to include material facts that they were entitled to present. To put it more generally, we see nothing wrong with allowing someone else to review a draft and edit it for matters of legitimate concern to the reviewer, if these matters are sufficiently inconsequential that the threat to the scholarly integrity of the manuscript seems nonexistant or clearly outweighed by the added information made available in return...
Clemens, a No. 1 draft pick who signed a couple of weeks after he pitched Texas to the College World Series championship in 1983, silenced many critics who believe that the MVP award should go to an everyday player rather than a pitcher...
...that they were not interested in the U.S. goal of defining some areas of agreement, perhaps including the reduction of intermediate-range nuclear weapons, or disagreement. Instead, Soviet negotiators hammered away at just one subject: SDI. Senior officials on both sides sat down later that evening to try to draft a joint communique. But there was no all-night session this time. Three hours into the staff meeting, it became clear that neither side was going to retreat from its position on SDI, and the session broke...