Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovered what this meant early this year, when it received a document entitled Draft Consolidated Guidance for Fiscal 1980. It was drafted by Russell Murray, 52, a former Pentagon systems analyst who is now Assistant Secretary of Defense for program analysis and evaluation. Said he: "Our near-term objective is to assure that NATO could not be overwhelmed in the first few weeks of a blitzkrieg war, and we will invest and spend our resources to that end." As for the Navy, it should concentrate on "localized contingencies outside Europe...
After three days in which nothing else was discussed in the house, the lawmakers voted to put Geralds' case before a policy committee. That committee, which began hearings last week, has 30 days in which to draft an expulsion resolution for the full assembly. When polled informally, 73 members−the required two-thirds−say they would expel Geralds immediately. One factor in the minds of many is that this is an election year. Legislators fear that a failure to expel Geralds will rebound unfavorably against them at the polls. Says the house majority floor leader Joseph Forbes...
...kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Another section, clearly aimed at clerical activists, declares that "priests, monks and nuns should not under normal circumstances participate in political struggle." The theme of the Puebla conference is how to evangelize an increasingly urbanized society, but opponents of the draft document contend that it fails to reflect a key post-Vatican II teaching: evangelization is inseparable from social concern...
Every year around draft time you find coaches saying things like "Well, we've got a couple of positions that we'd like to fill, and then we're going for the best athlete available...
...there's always the free agent draft...