Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right thing to do," said Stephen D. Trafton '92, returning from his varsity crew workout. "If it comes to a draft, I would serve. But right now, I'm studying rather than worrying about...
With debate under way at last in both houses, the question becomes just what kind of action Congress should take. One unlikely prospect is that it could offer the President a blank check to pursue his current policies. To that end, the White House began preparing a draft resolution for Congress that would urge "continued action" by the President to fulfill U.N. mandates calling for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait...
...Gorbachev made the most of what was available last week. Emerging jubilant from a Kremlin meeting with the Federation Council, a policymaking body that includes leaders of the 15 republics, the President announced that a temporary economic truce had been reached with the republics, finally making it possible to draft a national budget for the coming year. The central government and the republics, Gorbachev said, would also cooperate to overcome a deepening food crisis and set up a transitional administration until a new treaty reorganizing the federal structure of the Soviet Union was approved. "Months were lost...
Indeed, many students said they might start to worry a lot more if the government considers resurrecting a military draft...
...counteract that possibility, an increasednumber of seniors are applying to graduate school,said Marc Cosentino, the business counselor atOCS. "By continuing their education, students arefinding a safe harbor in this recession,"Cosentino said. "They are also protectingthemselves from the reinstatement of the draft...