Word: draft
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...They were asking whose dog it was," Landin says, and they took down the phone number of the restaurant but the Harvest bartender "didn't get their number, draft...
...such thing as state-of-the-art in computers; technology changes too fast for anything to stay reasonably fresh and new for more than, say, two months. What is super today will surely become nothing spectacular (if not entirely obsolete) by the time you start working on the first draft of your fall Expos term paper...
Meanwhile, the work of hammering out a draft proposal was wearing down animosities. The Norwegians enhanced the chances for a breakthrough by keeping the atmosphere intimate. Thus, after plowing through reams of documents, the Israelis and the Palestinians shared plates of Norwegian salmon and wandered together in nearby woods. "To say the atmosphere was friendly," recalls Pundak, "is an understatement." The enemies drank wine and brandy together, watched the news and video movies on television and, when meeting at the Holsts' home, got down on the floor to play with their hosts' four-year-old son, Edvard. (Arafat...
...both sides had produced a draft that Pundak describes as "very interesting stuff." Interesting enough to entice two Israeli Foreign Ministry officials, Uri Savir and Yoel Singer, to travel to Norway soon thereafter for a firsthand look and to join the negotiations. At this point, Arafat in Tunis and Rabin in Jerusalem had been fully persuaded that the channel was more fact than fantasy, and both leaders were closely monitoring the drafting of a declaration of principles in which every nuance was fought over...
Sources caution that these forecasts resulted from a draft of the health- reform plan that is still being refined, and was tested on an econometric model that included "faulty assumptions" about the ways in which employers, workers and health-care providers are likely to respond to health-care reform. Still, these estimates -- and others by independent economists who predict job losses in the 200,000-to-600,000 range -- galvanized Clinton's health-reform advisers last week into a crash program to refine both their computer models and the health-care plan in order to minimize their forecast of unemployment...