21.   Ads developed for a pitch are rough drafts, works in progress.

22.   Advocates of gay rights did not complain that the rough draft under discussion Thursday completely avoided the questions of same-sex marriages and homosexuals in the military.

23.   All of this timing information tells me that readers may expect a book that has been written in rough draft and printed that way.

24.   All-Star voting is an annual reminder that fans take a longer view than the people who write the rough draft of history.

25.   But we technology journalists write up the first rough draft of prophecy.

26.   Celera Genomics, a company that raced the public consortium to produce a first rough draft of the human genome, is not attempting to produce a complete version.

27.   Dodds has mapped out a rough draft of an eight-team playoff.

28.   DoubleTwist is the first, however, to say it has a rough draft.

29.   Everyone knows that journalism is the first rough draft of history, so we rough drafters will continue drafting, roughly.

30.   Even at its best, as the late Phil Graham of The Washington Post said, journalism is no more than a first rough draft of history.