Word: drafted
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Mixed Evidence. Carter has been untypically slow in filling many appointive positions, but he has found time to offer amnesty to anyone who evaded the draft in the Viet Nam War. He has proposed abolition of the 190-year-old Electoral College, by which Presidents are chosen, urging that the popular vote determine the winner. He has asked for legislation to enable any American to show up at the polls and vote after simply offering proof of age and residence -rather than having to register in advance. He has asked U.S. allies to stop selling fast-breeder nuclear reactors...
...delegates chosen at today's caucuses will attend the convention at Holy Cross College, and the convention will draft an "official and binding platform of the Democratic State Committee," Stein said...
...even though the draft no longer threatens increasingly self-satisfied Harvard students, the messages Thoreau offers on the harms of unchecked technological progress and his philosophy on attaining "consciousness" make for insightful entertainment...
...Task Force on Pedagogical Improvement, chaired by Wilga M. Rivers, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, was to conduct such an examination. In an effort to define the ideal teaching situation, an early (and since revised) draft of the Task Force's report says...
...nature of many of the genes is totally unknown beforehand, the host bacteria might be endowed with some dangerous new characteristic. What irritated the opponents of recombinant DNA even more was the fact that Hogness was in charge of a subcommittee appointed by the National Institutes of Health to draft the guidelines. That, said M.I.T.'s Jonathan King, leading member of the radical Science for the People organization, was like "having the chairman of General Motors write the specifications for safety belts...