Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crank out a news-based movie (on Tonya Harding or the Waco siege) within a couple of months of the event. But in theatrical features, where everyone is conscious of art, ego and the roll of megamillion-dollar dice, the average film takes a couple of years from first draft to opening...
...delegates to Cairo appear to have two main options: approve the essence of the draft proposal, allowing the Vatican and its supporters to file dissents, or try to find some consensus language that papers over the conflicts, which usually happens with U.N. documents. The need for consensus reduces action plans to pallid, inoffensive wish lists that quickly disappear into bureaucratic oblivion after the signing ceremonies. Such was the outcome of the Earth Summit that convened in Rio de Janeiro two years ago. But continued indecisiveness on the population issue may be a formula for disaster. Speaking in Washington recently, Nobel...
...good stuff" in the crime bill. To make sure that lawmakers understood just how much of it was earmarked for their districts, Democratic congressional aides prepared a state-by-state breakdown of which places would be getting which dollars. For the Black Caucus members, Clinton promised to draft an Executive Order decrying racial disparities in the application of the death penalty in federal prosecutions. Attorney General Janet Reno also pledged to take steps to rectify such imbalances. None of this, however, applies to the states, which mete out the bulk of capital sentences. While the Administration's efforts drew...
Quiet satisfaction suffuses Big John's bar in Charleston, South Carolina, an establishment that caters to the Citadel, the town's revered military school. The Icehouse draft beer is flowing, and all's well with the world; or, more precisely, everything's in its place. The Confederate flag and the flag of the South Carolina secession are tacked next to Old Glory near the ceiling; the IMPEACH CLINTON sticker beneath the flags seems practically to glow; the cadets and their sweethearts are crowding the red vinyl-covered benches; and Shannon Faulkner's hair -- the proximate cause for the celebratory mood...
Daniels said he thought the media was going todrive Bill Clinton out of the 1992 presidentialrace by criticizing his draft record and allegedextramarital affairs...