Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago, the button of the New England Resistance was a black hand-styled Omega on a white background. Omega stands for ohms in electricity which measures resistance, which, sometime after October 16, 1967, became the official insignia for draft resistance. I first put on my Omega button as I dropped my letter to Ramsey Clark with my draft cards into a red and blue box labelled "U. S. Mail." That was in San Diego, California last summer. That was when buttons meant more than they do now. They somehow told what was on your mind...
...leak fiasco and ruled that offshore drillers must bear unlimited liability for causing pollution and harming marine life-a big surprise from an alleged pawn of the oil companies. A year ago, Hickel was spurring exploitation of Alaska's oil-rich North Slope. Now he calls for forced-draft studies on how to "protect the fragile Arctic environment from the processes of exploitation...
...they are to develop a "critique of American society" and plan future tactics. Members of the Peace and Freedom Party are canvassing door to door in favor of rent control in Cambridge, where Harvard's expansion has contributed to a severe housing shortage. Other students are engaged in draft-resistance counseling, mobilizing high school youths and running newspaper and film projects...
...with the Offers. Negotiations started routinely enough in 1964. The Port Authority asked only U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel for preliminary estimates, assuming that those two giants alone had the capacity to fill such a huge order. Both companies sent in estimates and draft contracts calling for a total charge of just under $82 million. Two years passed before the Authority sent each company the final specifications for a binding bid. Then U.S. Steel raised its bid to $122.2 million, and Bethlehem came in at $118.1 million...
...office has also aided neighborhood action groups; CLAO staff attorneys, for example, did the legal work needed to draft Cambridge's Model Cities ordinance...