Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this insensitivity that allowed Harvardians to evade the Vietnam draft with clean consciences and let the "hill-billies" die in their stead (a point made by James M. Fallows '70 in his brilliant essay "What Did You Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy...
...Webster last week proposed an effort to define the policy more clearly so that CIA officers "can go right up to the edge of that authority and not worry if they or their agency is going to get in trouble." The Justice Department has been asked to prepare a draft for changes...
...journalism -- the kind done with words -- is the first draft of history, what is photojournalism? Is it the first impression of history, the first graphic flash? Yes, but it is also (and this is the disturbing thing) history's lasting visual impression. The service that the pictures perform is splendid, and so powerful as to seem preternatural. But sometimes the power they possess is more than they deserve...
...House, which approved the original draft of the bill last summer, voted by a slim margin to accept an amended Senate version of the bill, 79-73, after more than two hours of often-heated debate on the House floor...
...enemy within," convened an international meeting on the depletion of the atmosphere's ozone layer, which protects the earth from harmful solar radiation. That same month the Prime Ministers of Norway, France and the Netherlands chaired a conference that proposed creation of an international authority with the power to draft and enforce environmental regulations around the world...