Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 400 copies of a rough draft of that letter were sent earlier this week to various university heads, Bok said, adding that he hoped many of these individuals would sign the letter before it is sent to the Senate in mid-July. Bok said he personally paid for the mailing of the letter which were sent Federal Express...
...days earlier, signaling that something literary might be up, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth whimsically interrupted the amateur free-agent draft to award the New York Yankees a "special pick," G. Frederick Will of University High School in Champaign, Ill. Shopped as a fledgling shortstop, Will in truth is a fully developed columnist, usually called George, who cannot go to his left. He is 45, Giamatti 48, but they seemed as connected by chance as Tinker and Evers, for the dreamy realizations of Will brought home the realized dreams of Giamatti, who seemed to begin exploring this uncommon transfer...
...current presidents of both leagues said in interviews this week that Giamatti was a quality draft pick...
Networking has become big business in the Federal Government too. In the past, each government agency, from the Census Bureau to the IRS, maintained its own computer listings. Now, more and more, these computers are sharing records. To nab draft dodgers, the Selective Service has fed its machines a restaurant chain's 10-year-old computer list of boys eligible for free birthday sundaes. To ferret out welfare cheats, social service agencies compare their rolls with lists of federal employees. And the Reagan Administration is prodding state governments to begin linking the computers that hold state unemployment insurance records, social...
...searches for the significance behind the news, interpreting a freshly passed state law or the impact of a zoning-board decision. The paper began a series in January called "County at the Crossroads," which explores the bright and dark sides of Spotsylvania's growth; one story described how a draft budget submitted to the board of supervisors could more than double real estate taxes. The Star has also disclosed inefficiencies in the nearby Stafford County treasurer's office and detailed the deceptive sales techniques a developer used to sell vacation lots...