Word: draw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zimmerman's logic is disturbing. Why should Memorial Hall be competing with other "similarly sized halls in the Boston area"? We do not need a well-oiled, glitzy arena at Harvard that can draw lots of off-campus performers...
...plan which turns management of one of the most impoverished school districts in the metropolitan area over to Boston University (B.U.) continues to draw fire from community members nearly one month after its initial implementation...
...doubles draws proved just as disappointing. Chang and Captain Mark Leschly reached the semifinals of "A" doubles but lost in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. In the "B" draw, Cardi and sophomore John Tolmie posed a tough challenge but came up short...
Bailey's request signaled a new skirmish in a battle for the minds of Laytonville's young. The townspeople (most draw their living from logging) began to buy ads in the Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss. Said one: "To teach our children that harvesting redwood trees is bad is not the education we need." With the second ad, says School Superintendent Brian Buckley, "we knew we had a problem." Last week a school-district committee voted 6 to 1 to resist censorship and keep The Lorax on the required list. Next week the school board gets a whack...
...black four-wheel-drive Ford plow truck with red pinstriping and air horns. But the Miata gets passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists in bicycle suits. Other conspicuous cars are costly and imposing and draw hate waves, as they are intended to. Decent householders glare, knowing you couldn't own the thing unless you were a drug dealer or a peculating corpocrat. The Miata is relatively cheap, if one of your relatives is a rich uncle. Its base price is under $14,000, though optional...