Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find it very important to raise the level of cooperation between our two countries." To that end, a newfound oil concession near the North Yemen border has been earmarked for joint development. The border is now open, plans for a combined power grid have been drawn, and a fresh draft of a unified constitution is almost ready for ratification. But past relations have been so rocky that skeptics doubt that the grandiose dreams of one Yemen nation can be realized. "I can't see how the north and this socialist government can ever be put together," says one veteran Western...
...savvy Soviet leader may only have been offering to yield what economic circumstances and a dwindling pool of draft-age youths would have led him to do anyway, but he did it with flair in a media-bathed forum. As the West's defense planners scrambled to respond to his initiative, the Kremlin's boss appeared to have scored a visionary diplomatic victory in a most unusual way: by withdrawing...
...classic instance of personnel shaping policy was President Richard ^ Nixon's embrace, in his first term, of the Family Assistance Plan, a form of guaranteed income for poor families. FAP was largely a Democratic proposal. The first draft was submitted by two Democratic holdovers in the upper bureaucracy who were so skeptical of getting a hearing that they referred to it as the Christian Working Man's Anti-Communist National Defense Rivers and Harbors Act of 1969. But their handiwork caught the eye of another Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had come into the Nixon White House as a presidential...
Cooke wants a new stadium. Beathard decided money only goes to Marshall and not draft picks. Safety Alvin Walton does not want to tackle. Smith gains a yard per carry. Rookie kicker Chip Lohmiller loses games with clockwork regularity. And we fans have even booed our own players...
Manna said that while the union had not dealt specifically with issues of security when drawing up a first draft of the contract, they had been considering issues of sexual harassment in the workplace...