Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both opponents and supporters of the law linking federal financial aid to draft registration, have undoubtedly felt much the same frustration this summer, sitting through the inept implementation of the so called Solomon Amendment...
...seem like three or four stages, but for me it was one continuous grinding journey. It led me just as near to insanity as I ever hope to get." An album recorded at this time, Station to Station, has all the scary strength of a first-draft suicide note. "Really horrendous" is the way Bowie describes the title track now, "just dreadful. It was a joyful anthem to nihilism." He had also become nuttily enamored of the "mythology" of fascism and would allow in interviews that he would make "an excellent dictator." At the end of a 1976 concert tour...
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Although the U.S. no longer has a military draft, all men are required to register on their 18th birthday. So far, 10.4 million, or 96.2% of all eligible men, have done so. But 408,000 have not. Most universities take the position that they should not be called upon to act as the arm for Uncle Sam's finger. "It isn't in keeping with our mission as an institution of higher learning," says Nancy Jessup, a financial aid officer at the University of California. They note that it unfairly singles out students who need loans, while...
Opponents of registration criticized the crackdown. "There is not any public tolerance for that kind of massive opening of prosecutions," says Barry Lynn, president of Draft Action. "It's still fundamentally an effort to intimidate." But Lamb says the new steps are manifestly fair: "We owe it to the 10 million who are registered to get that pool as large...