Word: drafted
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...GATT really necessary? Its primary function is to serve as a vehicle for the resolution of international trade disputes and to draft an accord which would appease the 109 contracting parties. The current round also seeks to formulate international rules governing trade in services, trade-related investment measures and trade-related intellectual property rights...
There are two reasons why the Rockies and the Marlins don't have very good players, or even players whose names appear on anything but their birth certificates. Number one, the expansion draft allowed them to pick the cast-offs and longtime minor leaguers of other major league teams. And number two, baseball just doesn't have that many good players anymore, largely because the sport has been so badly mismanaged that children grow up playing other games instead...
...Marlins scouting office was even more accomodating. The woman answering the phone dutifully took down my name and number. She said they would send me a listing of their nationwide tryouts. And she said I should call back after the June draft. Then, presumably, we could talk contract...
...when Clinton clashed with Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell on the gay issue. "Not since Carter has a President been so disliked by the military," said a Joint Chiefs staff officer. Uniformed personnel ranging from privates to generals routinely refer to their Commander in Chief as "Slick Willy" and "Draft Dodger." Beyond the financial affronts like Clinton's proposed government pay freeze, which will save $18 billion in military spending, the ranks are rife with bogus stories that Clinton forbids officers to wear their uniforms in the White House and that the First Lady refuses to ride in cars with...
...effect, "I then ordered the officers to attack his joints," Koon recounted. "The intent I had was to cripple him, to break bones, to make him unable to push off the ground." The defense got further support when the judge refused to allow into evidence passages from a draft copy of Koon's book, Presumed Guilty, about the incident, in which the author makes racially inflammatory statements...