Word: drafting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senators who started pushing for an end to the draft in 1970. (It ended...
...Presidents is that they are Senators not just in name but also by disposition. Americans were angry and confused about the crisis on Wall Street. The moment seemed to cry out for someone to make sense of it all. Instead McCain and Obama explained how they would amend a draft of the bailout legislation. Then they got up the next morning and tried to negotiate a joint statement urging patriotic calm...
...required, additional legislation would have to be approved. The odds of that happening depend on whether or not the bailout stabilizes the housing market - the better the U.S. economy, the smaller the bailout will cost taxpayers. And it also depends on how the final bill is worded - the initial draft included ambiguous language that some observers have argued gives the Treasury power to spend more than $700 billion, as long as it isn't holding assets worth more than that at any one point in time...
Likewise, Amobi Okoye decided to enroll at a large football program, the University of Louisville, over Harvard. In 2007, Okoye was the 10th pick of the NFL Draft...
...hands of Wally Szczerbiak. The forward rises up and fires a high, arching three-pointer. The ball floats in the air, spinning like a rubber globe as it falls towards the hoop, kisses the back rim, and swishes gently through. Pandemonium. Unfortunately, although Harvard recruited Szczerbiak, the former NBA draft pick and Western Conference All-Star also considered attending Miami University (Ohio). He chose Ohio...