Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Bork graduated in 1944, his parents refused him permission to enlist in the Marines. Bork retaliated by promising to volunteer as a paratrooper if he had to await the Army draft. His parents relented, but the war ended before he got out of Marine training camp...
...Washington Lobbyist Martin Hamberger did not waste time trying to persuade unsympathetic Navy brass to renegotiate. Instead he went to Specter, asking for a bailout. The Senator received $9,500 from Dravo's political-action committee for his 1986 re-election campaign. Last September Hamberger gave Specter a draft of what he wanted -- an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that directed the Navy to reimburse Dravo for its overruns...
...urged that Japan and Saudi Arabia be required to pay for the U.S. defense of the gulf. Trump, 41, disavowed any political ambitions. "I have no intention of running for President," he said. But he has plans to speak in New Hampshire, where a Republican activist is organizing a "Draft Trump" campaign...
...occasion the government has felt obliged to draft white-collar bureaucrats into the military, thereby creating manpower problems in civilian life. When a tax officer who had been employed at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance was killed at the front, no one took over his ministry caseload. "During the last few offensives, the authorities have had to ^ mobilize the educated bureaucracy," says Rizvi. "The result is that many departments have lost competent people...
...paintings, coins, classical writings, excavations at ancient ship sheds and inscribed- stone inventories of the Piraeus dockyards have contributed some ideas. Scholars know that trireme hulls were light, long and slender, displacing some 22 tons, measuring about 123 ft. in length and 19 ft. at the beam, with a draft of slightly more than...