Word: draft
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...Sandman movies, they just got increasingly appalling. It was really strange. They started out hiring some really good people and you got Elliot and Rossieau and Roger Avary came in and did a draft. They were all solid scripts. And then John Peters fired all of them and got in some people who take orders, and who wanted fistfights and all this stuff. It had no sensibility and it was just...they were horrible...
...Kidd noted that plans were still in preliminary stages, adding that so far only a draft job proposal has been drawn up. The College hopes to hold an open search for a director, led by a search committee with faculty, staff, and students by the end of the fall semester, Kidd said...
...went M.I.A. I had been working madly for the previous week to finish an experiment whose write up would be my final paper for the course. Since I had never really written up an experiment like this, he was firm about the need for me to send him a draft so that he could give me feedback on it. The morning it was due, I e-mailed it to him. I heard nothing from him that first day, and the next I e-mailed to make sure that he had actually received it. He replied that he had, and that...
...family crisis—and I certainly didn’t want to harass him if that was the case. Moreover, I was certain that when he made up my grade he would take into consideration that I hadn’t been able to submit a final draft of my paper, since it was he who had failed to send me the comments on it, without which we had both agreed the exercise would be essentially useless...
...once again described the unfulfilled agreement that my tutorial leader and I had made about getting comments on my initial draft, the question I had been sadly too sure would at some point come finally arrived. It was with an almost wry smile that I replied when I was eventually asked, “Did you get it in writing?” That one telling question confirmed the unfortunate suspicion—later explicitly confirmed—that I had had throughout the latter part of the ordeal: namely, that I had neither rights nor recourse in the matter...