Word: draft
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Fisher subsequently prepared negotiators for the Camp David summit, which produced the land-mark peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, urging that they start with one conciliatory draft rather than two diametrically opposite ones...
Flaherty helped Keverian draft a $2 billion tax package last year that failed to pass the House and is often thought to favor increased taxes as a solution to the state's budget crisis...
...doubts over how to dismantle the centralized economy, and how quickly. Two weeks ago, he seemed determined to present a single economic program to the nation, combining elements from both the Ryzhkov and Shatalin programs. Gorbachev asked Abel Aganbegyan, one of the early architects of his perestroika policy, to draft the joint package. Last week the economist delivered his report to the Supreme Soviet. According to Aganbegyan, it had proved impossible "to make a single program out of the two." The compromise plan that he presented is drawn primarily from the Shatalin plan -- with some notable amendments by Gorbachev...
After thinking about it for a minute, I gave the following response: If my government ordered me to go, I would use every legal means to postpone or avoid my draft, including a deferment to finish my education. If I had to go, I would, but I would try to avoid a combat assignment. If I was assigned to combat, I would fight to the best of my ability...
...Saudi draft, the memo named King Fahd overall commander, with Schwarzkopf and the Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan, as his deputies. Schwarzkopf objected -- as did George Bush -- and it was rewritten to establish separate, parallel commands: U.S. troops in one, Saudi and allied Arab forces in the other...