Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forty undergraduates will soon receive letters from the financial and office telling then that they have 10 days to sand in forms verifying that they have registered for the draft or make alternate arrangements for receiving their financial...
...summer the EPA learned that the chemical had contaminated water supplies in some communities in Florida, Georgia, California and Hawaii. And studies showed that traces of EDB in fruits and vegetables did not decay completely as had previously been thought. Last week, three years after the EPA first circulated draft rules governing the chemical, the EPA announced an emergency ban on soil injection of EDB, only the second such action in agency history, and moved to stop fumigation in 30 days. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) also announced a new, stiffer exposure limit for the estimated...
...adults, a larger proportion of the population than in almost any other Western democracy. Though sincere and diligent in their efforts, they failed. To be sure, there are structural reasons why millions of Americans opt not to help choose the leaders who will tax them, spend their money and draft their laws. Perhaps the checklist embraced by the symposium would boost participation by as much as 9 percent, as claimed. But the voters gained would be those with the incredibly short attention span, the citizens only marginally weakened from their coma of apathy...
...effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...
...were nervous about becoming President. "No," he answered after a moment's reflection. "I'm sorry, but I'm not." He plunged immediately and vigorously into his work. Within a day he had issued his first Executive order, pardoning all Viet Nam-era draft evaders who were not involved in violent antiwar acts. He also issued a statement urging Americans to save energy by turning down their thermostats...