Word: drafted
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...issue was a big one, namely the Republican Party's platform on the sensitive subject of tax increases. Meeting in Dallas last week, the party's platform subcommittee on economic policy began its deliberations with a staff-written version blessed by the White House. The draft declared that Republicans "oppose any attempts to increase taxes which would harm the recovery and reverse the trend to restoring control of the economy to individual Americans...
...faculty of the school approved the first draft of the actual proposal, called New Pathways, in June, and now coordinators have begun recruiting professors, shaping the curriculum, and discussing some of the nuts and bolts of the program...
...Hong Kong the following day, Howe made public the cause of all the blithe spirits: the two countries had worked out the basic principles of a treaty that they hope to draft and initial as early as next month. The Sino-British plan for the future of the flourishing colony and its 5.5 million people, declared Howe, had all the makings of "a historic agreement." It would convert Hong Kong into an "autonomous special administrative zone" that could continue to be a bastion of freewheeling capitalism for at least 50 years after the 1997 handover. The terms of the agreement...
...bomber, production of nerve gas and President Reagan's Star Wars concept of space-based defenses. On the other hand, she has spoken of the need for a strong defense and backed funding of the Trident Nuclear Submarine, the Pershing II Nuclear Missile and Draft Registration...
Although the Roman Catholic hierarchy supported the Sandinistas' overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, it became disenchanted as the new leadership imposed curbs on personal freedom, including press censorship and restrictions on public assembly. More recently, the church has opposed the government's decision to draft all men over the age of 17. In addition, the Pope has been at odds with four priests who disregarded his opposition to political involvement by taking high-level positions in the Sandinista government...