Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second spot recalls in lurid terms Gennifer Flowers' allegations about a 12-year love affair. "Get to know Bill Clinton the way Gennifer Flowers did," the voice-over promises viewers who call Brown's phone bank. Callers get 12 minutes of stale talk about sex, draft evasion and marijuana...
...Lindros shoots a puck like a cannon and hits opponents like a freight train. As such, the 19-year-old Canadian junior and Olympic star qualifies as a franchise player, which is how at least three National Hockey League teams have treated him since he was the No. 1 draft selection in 1991. But Lindros, from Ontario, refused to play for the team that picked him, the league-lagging Quebec Nordiques, triggering a legal brawl that pitted the Philadelphia Flyers against the New York Rangers. An arbitrator ruled Philadelphia the winner, but at a hefty price. The Flyers will have...
...candidates about whom the public and press know little, since negative revelations can easily shatter their tenuous popularity. The latest example: Clinton, who was declared a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination before the New Hampshire primary but then was staggered by bombshells about his alleged extramarital affairs, draft status and experiment with marijuana...
...major reason for the failure, say other directors, is that Perot never tried to build coalitions within the board or even to draft a detailed plan for reform; he just carped and nagged. A senior executive who agreed with many of his criticisms says he was rebuffed when he tried to work with Perot. His explanation: "I learned that you can't be 90% for Ross Perot. You have to be with him all the way." GM in 1986 got so fed up with Perot that it paid him $700 million for his stock just...
...developments for the party, union and republican authorities; now there are just 19. Still, in trying to respond as quickly as possible to the constant barrage of daily crises, Yeltsin's men have inadvertently created a bureaucratic jumble of their own, superimposing new agencies on top of old ones. Draft laws and decrees circulate among the government ministries, Golovkov's administration and a third, separate state legal bureau. Explains Justice Minister Fedorov: "We are experimenting with new institutions. Many will not survive the test of time...