Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enter the librarian. She asks one why he wants the window open: "To get some fresh air." She asks the other why he wants it closed: "To avoid the draft." After thinking a minute, she opens wide a window in the next room, bringing in fresh air without a draft...
...speech. Though long used to being confronted with Washington faits accomplis, the NATO leaders this time had been kept informed on the evolution of the policy decision. The zero option was discussed in a meeting of allied defense ministers in Gleneagles, Scotland, in October. Three weeks ago, a draft of the final negotiating proposal was approved by a special NATO consultative group in Brussels chaired by Assistant Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. He carefully briefed top European officials on the speech days before Reagan delivered...
...President Carter's Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti, then insisted on a stricter interpretation of the law, which forbids unauthorized expenditures. While Civiletti's "opinion" did not legally bind Reagan, the President took it seriously enough to have his Office of Management and Budget draft contingency plans. So, apparently, did Congress. Well in advance of the deadline, it authorized one branch of Government to continue functioning, and with a spending increase: itself...
Following the panel discussions at "The Parties and the Nominating Process," the two parties may meet in private sessions to draft a common statement. Whether two organizations antagonistic towards each other on budget cuts, tax cuts, defense spending and the Soviet threat can reach any sort of agreement on primary dates and delegate selection remains to be seen. Republicans, who currently occupy the White House, probably see far fewer faults in the process than their vanquished counterparts...
...analysis of race works best in the story of a single player, Kermit Washington. Washington emerged from a shy and awkward childhood in the Washington, D.C., slums to become a top draft choice with the Los Angeles Lakers. Initially, he failed in the pros, but through a combination of good coaching and hard work almost unrivaled in this selfish era, he had become a star. Then, in an instant that any fan, and many non-fans, will long recall, he punched Rudy Tomjanovich in a brawl and nearly killed him. This gentle man, this hero, had marked himself forever with...