Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reservoirs over the next few weeks. City governments convened emergency sessions to consider strict rationing for business and residential users. In the first unforeseen crisis of his new administration, Governor Pete Wilson stopped just short of declaring a state of emergency, instead creating a "drought action team" to draft a water plan in two weeks. "Concern is justified. Panic is not," cautioned Wilson. "This is a threat to our livelihoods, not our lives...
...meeting, Watson agreed that an apology was necessary, and left it to the rest of the Steering Committee to determine exactly what form that should take. Two days later, the other four members of the Steering Committee met and drafted a letter of apology, based directly on the conclusions of our discussion with Watson. After presenting our final draft of the statement to Watson, we made some additions and subtractions at his request, and he willingly signed it. Unlike Lai, I do not consider this treatment "fascist...
Some people believe that protesting is useless, since the war has already started, and few believe that Bush will stop the war because of protests back home. But protest could help by making Bush think twice before he rejects a possible settlement or considers calling for a draft or a suspension of civil liberties...
...constitution that grants universal suffrage. De Klerk emphasized last week that he had no intention of agreeing to a black-dominated interim government that would oversee the transition to a new regime. At the same time, he reaffirmed plans to convene a multiracial, all-party conference to draft the new constitution...
...democratic forces in the country pointed out, the dispatch of paratroops to Lithuania last month was first justified in the same way -- as a limited move against draft dodgers. Yet it quickly turned into a bloody assault against pro-independence demonstrators that claimed the lives of 14 people...