Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NONE OF THIS is intended to refute the allegation that most students are self-centered and uninterested in making long-term changes in the University or society at large. Campus meetings are called to announce anti-nuclear arms petitions or defend draft registration evaders, but the excitement passes quickly, affecting only a tiny minority of undergraduates. The proud organizers spew out their own lack of impact. At The Crimson, where editorial commentary is considered a gravely serious duty, our positions often boast high idealism without any sense of responsibility for outlining new paths of action. Repetition of the house ideology...
...magnanimous world leadership. Only the most circumspect and thoughtful of the early activists were able to preserve their justifiable discontent in its original form. Most either drifted away from the student movement after repeated failures or joined the rush toward destructive pseudo-revolutionary militarism inspired by Vietnam and the draft...
...graphic symbols representing such everyday objects as a trash can, a clipboard, file folders, a calculator, a battery-operated clock. By pointing the arrow at an icon and pressing the button on the mouse, the user triggers an action. He might use the trash can to discard the first draft of a memo. The clipboard is used as temporary storage when moving information from one place to another. File folders are for long-term storage...
...Weinberger, "Look, we can't go up there and cut everybody else's increases without cutting military pay." Even at that last moment, the President gave no orders. Instead, as silence fell over the group, Stockman penciled the prospective savings from a military pay freeze into a draft budget document and, said one White House aide, "that...
...Japan, which spends less than 1% of its gross national product on defense, vs. 6.3% for the U.S., is not shouldering a fair share of the military burden in the Pacific. So far, Nakasone's efforts to boost military spending have been disappointing to Washington. In his first draft budget, presented last December, Nakasone lowered the planned purchase of U.S.-built F-15 fighters from 20 to 13, dropped one of three destroyers from its naval buildup, and reduced tank orders from 75 to 60. State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg later declared that Japan's defense commitment "falls...