Word: drafting
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...Treaty of Rome 50 years ago was almost ineffably mundane - a series of long meetings of forgotten bureaucrats in rooms foul with tobacco smoke. No blood was shed, few memorable speeches made; the heroes were those who could cajole a compromise into being over a hurried coffee, or draft a clause with exactly the right kind of nice phrase that would win broad support...
...curdled by European dithering in the Balkan wars and by the concomitant realization that European electorates had no stomach for displays of superpowerdom as they have been conventionally measured: that is to say, in killing capability. In 2005, voters in France and the Netherlands - two founding members - rejected a draft European constitution, without which political union is impossible. Javier Solana, the E.U.'s estimable foreign affairs czar, may bustle around the Middle East as he has been doing of late, but nobody pretends that when he does so he carries the weight of the U.S. Secretary of State...
...which rhymes with V, which stands for violence. The Parents Television Council (PTC), the group at the vanguard of the TV-sex wars, has lately focused on prime-time blood: power-tool torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, vivisection on Heroes. And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content...
...proposals.“It’s possible that some of the people who need to read the report most are precisely the people who are not here,” Professor of History of Art and Architecture Jeffrey F. Hamburger continued, addressing about 120 faculty members.The report, drafted by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development and published in January, seeks to address growing concerns about how Faculty members balance teaching and research, according to the committee’s chair, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol.In the midst of this year?...
...Murphy said. He also noted that he sees a future for Dawson in special teams, due to his ability to cover and return kicks, as well as his phenomenal closing speed.Dawson himself isn’t counting on anything, but remains hopeful for a spot in the upcoming NFL draft, as well as getting into a team’s training camp this summer.“I’m not going into the whole draft with too high expectations,” Dawson said. “I expect to have an opportunity, and that?...