Word: draft
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...April 14, 1997, the Association of American Universities (AAU) adopted a statement in support of affirmative action. Rudenstine helped draft the statement, which ran in both The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Every Ivy League institution is a member of the AAU, with the exception of Dartmouth College...
...rights, and held meetings with the dissidents Castro had tried to keep under the carpet. In spite of that, the summit was clearly a diplomatic triumph for the aging Cuban strongman, because it represented an explicit repudiation of the embargo maintained by eight successive U.S. presidents. The summit's draft declaration in fact contains a strong critique of the Helms-Burton law by which the U.S. seeks to force other countries to uphold its embargo...
...after Davis' speech proposing to draft the legislation as a campus-wide referendum, Seton switched camps and voted against his own legislation...
...life can now return to bustling normality. He will continue with his comic-book writing, scripts for Miramax and Warner Bros. (a Superman draft didn't work out) and a prime-time cartoon version of Clerks for, of course, Disney. "It's just rife with irony, isn't it?" he says. "Let's see if we can deliver the PG my mother was always lookin' for." But his biggest project is to enjoy time with his new wife Jennifer Schwalbach, a former writer for USA Today, and their newborn daughter Harley Quinn. "I want to take the next year...
...also about making financial-services firms in the U.S. big enough to compete with universal banks in Europe and Japan. Banks there have long been free from the kind of separation that has ruled in the U.S. since Senator Carter Glass and Representative Henry Steagall bonded in 1933 to draft the defining financial legislation of the 20th century. Born in tough times, Glass-Steagall expanded the powers of the Fed in controlling credit. It established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insured bank deposits. Most important, the act required banks to choose between being a simple lender (a bank...