Word: draft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This weekend, Hinz, Phillips and Maurice Frilot will be waiting at home, hoping their names will be among the 336 called in the NFL annual draft...
...Figuring out the first 50 picks of the NFL draft...
Also promising but in need of a further draft or two is Crews' Blood Issue, an old-fashioned play of a family gathering leading to late-night revelation. The secret is tame by current standards: a man who feared his blood was tainted asked his best friend to sire his children. But the real problem is that the central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak...
Unfortunately, there is no real mechanism that policy makers can devise to force the Dan Quayles of society to particpate. Any equivalent of a draft would not fly on Capitol Hill. While Nunn/McCurdy's "burden" might thus fall somewhat more on the unfortunate, it also provides them with opportunies they would not otherwise have--to earn themselves the college educations they are not provided by our present system...
Despite his current success at Miami, Fernandez made a gutsy decision to turn down a guaranteed professional contract. He was the first first-round draft choice since 1979 to turn down the major leagues...