Word: drafting
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...employees of community-radio stations banned from the airwaves by the junta. Legal activists, including a veteran former judge, have condemned what they believe is deteriorating judicial freedom under the military leadership. And Buddhists, who are upset that their faith was not designated as the national religion in the draft of the post-coup constitution, have also rallied against the military government. "The anti-junta coalition has gathered critical mass," warns Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "This is a pent-up situation, and it's going to get worse...
...ordered the freezing of Thaksin's domestic bank accounts, estimated at more than $1 billion.) More generally, many Thais blame the coup leaders for a series of economic missteps that dented Thailand's international reputation, as well as for scrapping the previous constitution and presenting a new draft that drew little from public consultation...
...that Pete can stand being with her and the kids all the time. He gives bogus excuses and sneaks out at night, not to have an affair, as his wife suspects, but to take part in a fantasy baseball draft - which outrages her more. You're cheating on me to get freaking companionship? she asks. Am I not enough? The movie's answer: No, you are not; no one person is. Nobody can be everything to anybody...
...Thank you for your excellent article on Gore. Please, U.S. citizens, do not draft this decent man to run again. I do not want him to be soiled by the dirt of U.S. politics. Recent history has shown that a man like him can be cheated out of an election victory by a much less capable contender. Norio Ohta, Takatsuki City, Japan...
...suicide of a first-year Medical School student in 2000, the Student Health Coordinating Board—an entity established just one year prior to implement the recommendations of a mental health report issued by the Provost’s office—organized a committee to draft a Crisis Response Manual. The manual, last updated in 2005, provides information on how to prepare for, respond to, and deal with the repercussions of crises including student injury or death...