Additionally, despite the brouhaha at the time, what was announced in February were only drafts.

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Text messaging has been spruced up as well, allowing multiple recipients to be added at the same time when sending a message, automatically saving unsent texts as drafts and letting users edit received messages before forwarding them.

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This is also because, unlike American sports where drafts and salary caps tend to level the playing field over time, soccer teams in the same league can have radically different resources, sometimes by a factor of 10 or more.

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We are prepared to invest the time and resources necessary to complete a transaction along an expedited timeline, and we would contemplate providing drafts of a definitive transaction agreement (which will include financing commitment letters), along with our more detailed proposal as soon as possible following the completion of satisfactory due diligence.

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Drafts of a follow-up resolution have been in preparation by American and British diplomats for some time.

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While the industry said it needed more time "to study" the proposals before it made a full response, its statement pointed out that early drafts of the royal charter contained "several deeply contentious issues which have not yet been resolved with the industry".

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