Word: drafted
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...original draft of the law, Zeigler said, the final responsibility for the child's placement lay with the parents, provided that the presence of the child in question did not physically endanger the child's classmates. That plan was rejected as being too "circular," she said. "After a complex series of evaluations and reevaluations and referrals, that would have sent the decision right back to the place where the question originated," she said...
...also would have increased payments for psychological disabilities on the grounds that they are more of an impairment to employment, the idea met with such outrage that President Nixon shelved it, at least temporarily. The Administration also fired Olney B. Owen, the VA executive who had prepared the original draft, although Owen had done so under strong pressure from Nixon's Office of Management and Budget. Last week Nixon Administration officials said that the idea of restructuring the disability benefits had not been dropped, but was still under "intensive review...
...attempt to forestall further demonstrations, the government enacted a new law that empowered the army to rescind the draft deferments of any student who boycotted classes. The law only spurred more protests. Strikes and demonstrations spread to the University of Athens and to the Aristotelian University of Salonika to the north. The students have called a temporary truce, but another mass rally is scheduled for this week. If the government does not back down, warns one student leader, "we will come down the streets...
...Cherokee, Iowa. A successful Democrat in a Republican farm state, Gillette opposed Roosevelt's plans to pack the Supreme Court, extend Lend-Lease aid to European Allies and serve for more than two terms. He overcame his reputation as an isolationist by helping to draft the United Nations Charter, but despite his apparent popularity and staunch pro-farmer politics, he was defeated for a fourth Senate term...
...commercial law, Sutherland helped draft the Uniform Commericial Code, a body of laws which established common trade practices among states. In 1962, he was chairman of a special committee to revise the so-called "blue laws," of Massachusetts...