Word: draft
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...while the committees will probably draft reports and outline long-term goals, student leaders say the answer is simple: broadening and increasing the dialogue about race relations. They say only through greater understanding of the differences between Blacks and whites will the fault lines in the community disappear...
...unskilled workers who are limited to 10,000 permanent visas a year, creating a wait of 10 years or more before a nanny or other domestic can become a legal resident. Senator Edward Kennedy said he would decide after a Commission on Immigration Reform hearing this week whether to draft a bill that would ease visa quotas to allow more nannies and other household workers to remain in the country...
...When I was in law school I devised a clever way to beat the draft by joining the Marines later," Ryan explained in an interview in his Holyoke Center office last week...
...Judge"; he often called us "Knucklehead" and shared his macadamia nuts when our work pleased him). He spoke cordially to everyone, high and low, though his unpretentiousness sometimes tempted people to underestimate him. Every time I did, he caught me. Late in the court's term, I wrote a draft of an opinion in which, in an obscure footnote, I proceeded to grind my own little ax. He returned the draft quickly, having etched a big X across the offending text...
...that point, Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin stepped in to mediate, proposing a compromise in which Clinton would "instruct" Aspin to draft the Executive Order over a six-month period. Aspin sold the plan to Clinton at a Blair House meeting three days before the Inauguration, but that too was leaked before Aspin met with the Chiefs. When he did, he discovered that the Chiefs had grown much more resistant. Aspin's attempts to keep the Chiefs on board failed during a stormy two-hour session in the top-secret, soundproof "tank" at the Pentagon...