Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rider's and, like Mays, he wields his bat low. But he is more coiled and wristy even than Aaron. Davis' thumbnail sketch includes these barely credible entries: supposedly he developed those wrists dribbling basketballs endlessly on the blacktops of direst Los Angeles and was a mere eighth-round draft choice in 1980 because most of the baseball scouts were afraid to venture into the neighborhood. From the sound of it, the place had its charm. Davis, Darryl Strawberry of the Mets and Chris Brown of the Giants all took aim at the same high fence enclosing the 68th Street...
...When the story of the arms sales to Iran began breaking last November and Reagan had to say something publicly, Secord took it upon himself to draft a speech for the President, unapologetically laying out most of the facts about the supply of arms to both Iran and the contras (though not the money connection between the two). Secord sent the draft to North. But North told him someone in the White House -- he did not say who -- had rejected the draft as "too hard." Reagan's eventual speech, delivered last Nov. 13, was unconvincingly vague about the Iran deals...
...very necessary for the western world in general to make a pronouncement on the abhorrance of apartheid," said Themba Vilakazi, co-coordinator of the South African Support Coalition of Massachusetts (SASCOM), an organization which helped to draft the bill...
...sincerity of that proposal is on trial. Last week the Soviets submitted a draft treaty at arms talks in Geneva that calls for the elimination of both American and Soviet medium-range Euromissiles in the 600- to-3,000-mile range. In addition, Moscow offered to destroy all its shorter- range Euromissiles in the 300-to-600-mile range. The Europeans thus find themselves being asked to accept a deal that gives them more than they bargained for. "We said we wanted cuts," mused a top NATO official. "Now we've been invited to put our missiles where our mouths...
...Terry Kennedy for $14. Henderson, year in and year out the Rotisserie League's Mr. Everything, comes up fourth. The bidding is fierce, quickly passing Rickey's previous salary of $53. Given the finite money pool of $3,120, the large number of top players in this year's draft would seem to make each one less valuable. But Rickey is immune to the iron laws of economics, and he boldly goes where no man has gone before: $60, then $65 and finally $69. The auctioneer intones his ritual "Going once, going twice . . ." Everyone looks at the Amaros...