Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreement calls for the group to draft "a statement of principles for creating a mortgage system for the construction and sale of housing in the City of Moscow" within 90 days...
...sugar and four cans of Spam, he indignantly, or perhaps shrewdly, turned down an American offer of asylum. Indignantly, because his six shipmates were not also offered asylum. Shrewdly, because, as agent Joe Cubas advised, claiming citizenship in another country will allow him to avoid the major league baseball draft and immediately make big money as a free agent. El Duque and fellow sailor Alberto Hernandez (no relation) had been barred from baseball in Cuba for helping Livan escape...
Last March, Manning made a most unusual decision: he returned for his senior year. In the past five years, it has become a matter of course for the most talented underclassmen to leave school and enter the NFL draft. Manning stayed at Tennessee for another shot at the national championship, the Southeastern Conference championship, and the Heisman Trophy, the award given to college football's most outstanding player. Manning succeeded only in earing the Conference title. The feature story asked Manning if he regretted his decision. Manning said absolutely not, that he would not change one thing about the past...
...counter Manning, the feature story asked a sports agent the same question. He predictably disagreed with Manning. The agent noted that Manning would have been picked first in the draft last year, whereas this year he might fall as low as fourth or fifth. In the NFL draft, that means a loss of probably fifteen to twenty million dollars. The agent could not understand how could anyone be so stupid. But then again, the agent lacks the trait that distinguishes Manning from his brethren: honor...
...Orlando has declined to leave. Instead, he's remaining in the Bahamas in hopes of establishing residency, either there or some other country other than the U.S.. The payoff could be huge: If Hernandez is a U.S. resident, he would have to go through baseball's draft and negotiate a contract with the team that picks him; if he's a resident of a third country, teams are free to bid for his services. That's the route Livan took before signing a $4.5 million contract with the Marlins. Since Orlando reportedly an even better pitcher than his brother...