Word: drafting
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Watson spoke for Stuart Eizenstat, assistant to the president for domestic affairs, who cancelled his appearance early this morning in order to help draft an anti-inflation speech which Carter will give tomorrow...
...during the past two years: ex-Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lewis Engman, ex-Army Secretary Martin R. Hoffmann, ex-Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott and ex-CIA Director William Colby. Old-line firms also face competition from specialty firms staffed by former congressional counsels or agency lawyers who helped draft the regulations that clients must now live with. Many of the outfits focus on growth areas in the law like energy and environmental affairs...
Bruce Collier, assistant to the dean of the Faculty, said that the rise in the number of applications in the late '60s resulted from students trying to avoid the draft. "Any male who didn't want to go to Vietnam went to graduate school. It became the normal thing...
Despite these impediments, last week the convention overcame a major hurdle and received the best indication to date that students have been paying attention to what has been going on in Lehman Hall for the past five months. After students voiced opposition to a clause in a rough draft of the constitution to provide special seats in the assembly for representatives from campus minority organizations, the minority organizations mobilized to neutralize this anti-affirmative action sentiment. The convention members first reacted to this flurry of activity with a sort of pleasant amazement that the convention had finally provoked a response...
...more liberal version will be produced. The answer depends on whether one thinks public opinion is moving in a more or less liberal direction on issues of criminal law. To me, the signs of growing illiberalism are plain, so I think we should settle for the improvements in the draft code as the best imaginable for the indefinite future. Others will disagree. But at least we should debate what the bill actually includes, not imaginary horrors...