Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Those assigned numbers in the lottery do not become draft eligible until next year. Their numbers will then determine how quickly they are called...
...revised lottery format designed to prevent a repeat of charges levelled against the first draft lottery last December, the officials picked sealed capsules from two drums-one giving a date of the year and the other a number between...
Once assigned a number, the potential draftee keeps it until he is 26 and his eligibility expires. However, under the new draft system inaugurated last December, he is only eligible for a period of one year-that is to say, if he survives a year of draft eligibility without being called, he becomes exempt from the draft except in times of national emergency...
Selective Service officials just as promptly announced that the Pentagon estimates were hogwash and that everyone should worry just as much as they had in years past. Everyone did, because most draft officials warned that they would probably be drafting everyone...
Wall Street does not want those powers exercised by the Government. To head off that possibility, an industry task force has drafted a bill that would make SIPC an almost purely industry self-regulating body. Under the industry's proposal, the insurance corporation would have twelve directors, but only two would be Government appointees; the others would be chosen by stock exchanges and industry associations. The SEC would have general authority to review SIPC operations, but at one point the industry draft specifies that there would be "no addition to" the SEC's regulatory powers...