Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What a heart-warming sight for this World War II veteran's tired old eyes: an ex-Marine from the ghetto taking the boxing title away from the world's richest and most famous draft dodger...
Still, much of the congress bore Teng's stamp. In his 3½-hr. address, Chairman Hua stressed a favorite Teng program: the "four modernizations" of agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. And a draft of a new national constitution for China introduced by Yeh hinted at wage increases and other incentives for workers, which Mao had opposed. Since coming to power, the troika has given some 20 million workers their first pay raises in almost two decades (though average urban salaries still remain in the $20-to $30-a-month range...
...rough draft states that if two-thirds of the students voting approve of the constitution, the student assembly would be ratified...
Convention delegates plan to hold meetings in every House in the next two weeks to inform students about the convention's aims and to allow them to read and comment on the rough draft of the constitution...
Alice's Restaurant. Arthur Penn does a nice job of turning Arlo Guthrie's half-hour-long ballad, about hanging out in western Massachusetts and ingeniously resisting the draft, into a loose, rambling, amiable film. The first half works particularly well. The second half drags on a bit too long and is broken by some incongruously depressing sequences, but the movie still remains one of the best film portraits of what life was like for the draft-board-baiting bohemian back-packers...