Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began with the script. There were five in all. Benchley (grandson of Humorist Robert Benchley) says he "lost the ego problem" after completion of the second. He wrote a third draft, which was subsequently reworked by such diverse hands as Playwright Howard Sackler (The Great White Hope), Director John Milius (The Wind and the Lion) and Carl Gottlieb, an actor who had played improvisational comedy with the California-based troupe, The Committee, and who had a small role in the film. The last version was rejiggered nightly out on location...
...environmental safeguards would not have compounded the energy problem if the nation had a coordinated energy policy. As it was, however, the vote merely highlighted the inability of the White House and Capitol Hill to come up with such a policy, or of the Democratic-controlled Congress to draft any sustainable energy program of its own. So long as that deadlock continues, the U.S. will apparently be left to OPEC's none-too-tender mercies...
...reason we call them "immigrants") came as refugees from nationalism, from its excesses and its horrors. Some had been deprived of their rights in nations to which they really belonged. Others had been forcibly included in larger nations to which they felt no loyalty. Many came to escape the draft in dynastic wars. Some-indentured servants, transported criminals, or slaves-were brought here against their will...
...free of a barrage of bombs unprecedented in the history of the world. The thousands of refugees spawned by 30 years of war--seeking escape from bombings, marches and retreats, free-fire zones and protective reaction strikes; or ripped untimely from their homes by "strategic hamlet" programs and "forced-draft urbanizations"--have begun to return. And the people of Vietnam will benefit from a government with wide popular support, committed to equality and to industrial and agricultural development...
...draft environmental impact study on the planned power plant's neighborhood released recently by the BRA said the power plant will have minimal impact on the area and will save the institutions involved about $1.9 million a year over what they would have to pay to Boston Edison for supplying the power if the plant is not built...