Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders that if they did not approve a moderate Social Security bill, popular pressure would force them to adopt irresponsible Government handout schemes like the ones being pushed by California's Dr. Francis Townsend and Louisiana Governor Huey Long. To soothe conservative qualms, Roosevelt demanded that his planners draft a scheme that was not "the same old dole." That ruled out any use of general revenues, meaning primarily income taxes, to finance any part of Social
...visitor prepared to leave, Jimmy Carter headed back to his word processor. The house was still silent and dark. He began rewriting a section of the book that describes his closest aides. Some who had read the draft had told him that it was much too soft on them. Engrossed in the work, he pushed himself well past his usual 10:30 bedtime. Day after day, he applied to the book the same drive and ruthless self-discipline he had brought to the presidency. Back home in Plains, he worked as if his very survival as a man depended...
...reason for going pro is simple--money, as much as possible. That's why Worthy waited until after Sampson announced to make his own decision. He knew that he would be worth more in a draft that didn't include Sampson, so when Sampson stayed, Worthy went...
...deadline for underclassmen to declare for the NBA draft came and went this weekend, and I feel robbed again...
Berkeley Student Body President Steven A. Anderson cites a $13,000 registration and draft counseling center and an $8,000 legal clinic along with the large sums given to about 150 campus groups and a lecture-note service as just a few of the ways in which undergraduates can benefit from the body's structure. He firmly believes that these elements of the autonomous government--much more than policy-making--are the core of the structure's legitimacy. Even at Ivy League schools where the budgets are considerably smaller, leaders reiterate the importance of funding. Says Princeton's Saxon: "When...