Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rothstein says CEC could not have been started without considerable volunteer labor. A banker helped draft a self-financing letter of credit. They received free legal services. And Kennedy got advice and assistance from the former chief oil purchaser for Gulf...
...still have a very distant shot at the American Football Conference division wild card berth, and furthermore, Pittsburgh will certainly survive the blow if they do fold. On the street you can already hear people talking about next year's game schedule, whom the Steelers might get in the draft, who will retire and who will be traded. You can hear plenty of personal analyses of the Steeler-Houston game, too--everybody's got their own version...
...year the draft was abolished, Army ROTC enrollment fell to 33,000, or about one-sixth of its 1967 peak of 177,000. Today the number is 65,000. Air Force ROTC has climbed to 22,500, only 10% below its Viet Nam peak. The military is still absent from some private colleges, including Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Stanford, Brown and Colgate, all of which ejected ROTC in the Viet Nam era. But Navy ROTC now has a waiting list of 30 schools that want to join the 55 other campuses that train midshipmen. Army ROTC has grown from...
...McCabe. The freshman proved his coach right, with an excellent game in the pivot... The Portland Trail Balzers' Kermit Washington was the last American University player to make it big in the pros. Boo Bowers, whom NBA general managers say is a potential first-round draft choice, will be the next...
Dada was protest, the anguished cry of artists who came of age during the horrors of World War I. Several of the founders of the movement, who came together in Zurich in 1915, were dodging the draft in their home countries. But the Dadaists objected to more than just the cruelty of war--they protested anything that infringed upon the dignity and freedom of the individual. Industrialism came under fire: Raoul Hausmann wrote in 1920 of the paralysis of the spirit "in a world which continues to function like a machine...