Word: drafted
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James Newman, a congressional counsel who helped draft the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, said: "This new force offers enormous possibilities for improving public welfare, for revamping our industrial methods and for increasing the standard of living." Proclaimed David Deitz, Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist and author of the 1945 book Atomic Energy in the Coming Era: "The day is gone when nations will fight for oil." Before the U.S. had time to consider fully the potential problems involved with the new form of energy, the nation leaped into the nuclear...
...Errol Louis had been in Prague in 1968, he would have been throwing Molotov cocktails at Soviet tanks. If Lieber and Baumgartner had been bright young apparatchiks fresh out of Moscow University, would they have been draft resisters? I doubt...
...Union speech is one of the great rituals of the Republic, enacted before the Cabinet, both Houses of Congress, members of the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the diplomatic corps and a prime-time TV audience numbering scores of millions. This speech was pure Reagan: a late draft showed about half the words rewritten in the President's handwriting. Many of his changes softened proposed jabs at the Democrats. On this occasion Reagan wanted to project an image of firm but temperate leadership that is national rather than partisan, while still setting out the points that he will...
...genius. But Tom just smiled and said, "Einstein was a genius; I'm a football coach." To Flores, football is not mysterious. "The Raiders play attack football: with the bomb or the threat of the bomb on offense, with man-to-man coverage on defense. We draft and trade for toughness...
Increasingly, however, students' direct interests are at stake. The Reagan Administrators has made a virtual policy out of hitting on groups with limited clout, with the announcement this week of wholesale cuts in educational aid for 1985, and the President's reiteration of the support of tying aid to draft registration, the attack on student interests has intensified. In 1980 financial aid to students was saved from the chopping block by the opposition of prominent Democratic lenders--but students today cannot afford to rely solely on a fortuitous coalition of congressional representatives. Today, like never before, students must lobby-with...