Word: draft
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...years ago, a draft was circulated to a select group of theological philosophers for comment, with the understanding that the Pontiff thought his work was nearly completed. The draft caused so much internal -- and not always well-concealed -- debate that the Pope took it back and overhauled it. Of the final product, a Vatican insider says, "What he has written is a masterpiece. But it is far too dense to be transmitted to most people...
...just finished signing some letters in the Oval Office last Tuesday night when he paused for a moment to take stock. Earlier in the day he had signed his cherished national-service bill, and he was preparing to spend the evening making more than 60 changes to a draft of the health-care speech he would deliver the following night. Obviously pleased to return to two issues that had served him well in the campaign, Clinton shoved some papers into his briefcase and said to an aide, "I think things are really coming together. We're doing what we were...
Sandel's course, taught in Sanders Theatre, reviews classical and contemporary theories of justice. Students discuss present-day controversies such as quotas, surrogate motherhood and the military draft...
...Administration is still trying to mollify the dubious and the displeased. Over the weekend White House health adviser Ira Magaziner sat down to write 150-odd changes into the 239-page draft that was widely leaked two weeks ago. One sample: to reassure women's groups, the Administration put obstetricians and gynecologists with the "primary-care physicians" whose numbers it wants to swell, rather than with the "specialists" whose ranks it intends to thin. Magaziner expects to make about as many more changes in each of the three or four remaining weeks between Clinton's speech and the submission...
President Clinton presented the initial draft of his long-awaited health care plan to the nation last night, outlining its major goals and challenging Congress and the nation to revamp America's "badly broken" system...