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So when you're done surveying, you take all this data and you punch it into a computer and you find someone that can draw really well, and you have them draft up a map that looks something like this, and it'll show you both a bird's-eye view of the passage as well as a profile view of the passage, kind of like an ant farm view.
So this is the main idea, but science is a rough draft.
Well in this case, I emailed the poet a draft of my talk and she said, "Yeah, yeah, that's about it."
When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country.
Take, for example, a draft of the Declaration of Independence written in Thomas Jefferson's own hand, which some colleagues of mine imaged a few years ago at the Library of Congress.
We submitted the draft to them, they responded back to us.
So this, I'm happy to say, it took three years to produce this because we also finalized the draft and took it actually into the field, sat with the election commissions in all these different countries, debated and defined and refined the draft, and finally published it in November 2014 in Cairo.
The draft law says that government money should not be used to collect data on racial segregation.
The FBI sent a package of these recordings along with a handwritten note to Dr. King, and a draft of this note was found in FBI archives years later, and the letter said, "You are no clergyman and you know it.
Do we need a draft to pull this off?
Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.
OK, so what's on the first draft of the moral mind?
I believe these are the five best candidates for what's written on the first draft of the moral mind.
But as my son Max grows up in a liberal college town, how is this first draft going to get revised?
When I wrote a first draft of the book, I circulated it to a number of colleagues for comments, and here are some of the reactions that I got: "Better get a security camera for your house."
Those involved at the outset may draft the plans and dig the foundations, but they will not raise the spire to its full height.
We don't have a draft.
So what you want to focus on instead is allowing your lower body to draft behind your upper body, much like a small car behind a big car on the highway.
Creating a good cartoon involves repeated failures, draft after draft.
Eventually, officers come knocking on people's doors, looking for men to draft for an army, and they see the farmer's son and his leg and they pass him by.
Should I draft this letter?"
And I had finally got around to doing some draft stripping, installing insulation around the windows and doors to keep out the drafts.
It's like they wrote a first draft of a script then made the movie right away.
I had read an earlier draft of this script, and it ended on 9/11 - with Charlie Wilson realizing that things had gone horribly wrong.
Perhaps a serious first draft (with scenes such as Ameche walking out into traffic with two toddlers) was incorporated into a sillier second or third version (with Selleck getting poked, bumped, prodded, and eventually losing a toe and a testicle!).
The script looks as if only a rough draft was written and shooting began before a finished script was completed.
An entertaining first draft for "North By Northwest", "Saboteur" has some wonderful Hitchcockian moments (one of the best occurs at a table, when the hero is asked by a woman who hasn't yet seen that he's wearing handcuffs, to give her a plate; trying to do that, he also drops a knife to the floor, exposing himself even more!)
One of the protagonists is an Oklahoma boy intent on making a difference, believing all the patriotic dribble he is spoon fed, and he happens upon a gang in New York, who are more or less glorified hoodlums; their characters are very unique, and probably wouldn't make sense today, but this bunch bands together by burning their draft cards.
To summarise, Fred Olen Ray is an ambassador for independent film making and Marc Singer the perfect B-movie lead.If only Olen Ray could draft in Tim Thomerson to the equation then we'd have a film on our hands.
Technically, I am a Boomer, though at the time when all the "idealistic youths" of the '60s were reading Marx, burning their draft cards, and generally prolonging a war which destroyed tens of thousands of lives; I was still in grade school.
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