The statement was so named because it was drafted at a meeting at the Sharon, Conn., home of National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., a onetime friend of Mr. Evans's.
The judge described the agreement as "self-serving" because it was drafted after the records were created and after the litigation had begun.
While not specifying how much city money would be needed to build and operate new shelters, the Council bill seemed certain to be passed into law, because it was drafted jointly by the Council and the staff of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
"Section 39 has limited effect because of the way it's drafted," Wright explained.
"It's going to be a nightmare to administer because of the way it was drafted," Mr. Frankel said.
Government sources played down reports that Michael Gove had torn up a report on the prime minister's favoured customs plan, saying the environment secretary had only ripped up one page because he objected to the way it was drafted.
At the time it was a big deal, because I was drafted, and I was not a kicker.
"I'm not a special guy just because I was drafted first," he said.
But in its current form, the agreement--perhaps because it is has been drafted largely by officials from environment, finance and foreign ministries--neither acknowledges the unprecedented perils to food production nor recognizes the importance of crop diversity to averting disaster.
I'm dwelling on this incident quite a bit at the moment, partly because I'm drafting an application for a promotion.
These documents should be recognized for what they are: government reliance on evidence that is valuable precisely because it has been drafted and approved by people other than Trump — and sometimes amounting to a formal pretext.
