Word: draft
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...November 3, a draft of the letter will be voted on by the full council. Berry will be invited to attend a council meeting, when he will be asked about variable meal plans, extended meal hours and working conditions
...baseball, as in other businesses, two cardinal rules apply: be smart and be lucky. The postmodern era adds: but first you must be inept. If a franchise is bad enough long enough, it gets to draft some good young talent (as the Braves did with Steve Avery, David Justice and John Smoltz). Then, if it is canny, it will trade one pricey player for two or three prospects (as the Twins did last year, losing Frank Viola to the Mets and gaining three blossoming pitchers in return). Finally, if fortune is kind, the team will find a few middle-income...
...42nd round of the 1990 spring draft, the Padres picked Decareau, and promptly...
Saturday: O-Positive with the Draft Picassos and Grambo...
...opposition to cross-border adoption will soon gain official support. At the Hague Conference on Private International Law, officials are writing a new convention on cross-border adoption, scheduled to be signed in 1993 by more than 50 nations, including the U.S. The draft version would require that every effort be made to place a child locally before he or she is offered to a foreign family. It would also forbid the payment of any compensation to a parent who gives up a child, and calls on signatories to prevent "the abduction, the sale of, or traffic in children...