Word: draw
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Such sentiments help explain why the high-draw cities in the U.S. are not the metropolises of New York and Los Angeles but the smaller and more habitable climes of Albuquerque, Fort Worth, Providence and Charlotte, N.C. To many working families, a higher quality of life, and more of it, compensate nicely for the absence of the Metropolitan Opera or the Hollywood Bowl. When Equitable Life Assurance Society summoned Jim Crawford, 43, back to Manhattan from its Des Moines office, he would not relinquish his Iowa life-style. "We based that decision on the quality of the environment," he says...
Unfortunately, in the myriad conflicts between principles and money, there is no obvious place to draw the line. I still can't decide on which side my Princeton Review work falls. But if I ever save enough money, maybe I'll quit...
While this is a specific case, it need not be an isolated one. We are not afraid to look at all our advertising. We realize this would require us to create boundaries, but these are ethical lines that we are willing to draw...
...selling off Eastern's assets in order to keep the airline in service. Now Lorenzo, under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, cannot sell assets without the approval of a Federal bankruptcy judge, and his sale of the Eastern Air Shuttle to Donald Trump is stalled. Lorenzo can draw on the assets of Continental Airlines and Texas Air to keep up the fight, but you can be sure that every $29 you give to Lorenzo goes straight into the unionbusting side. Every passenger must ask him or herself, in the words of the famous union song, "Which side...
...shut down. But there is a broad consensus in the state and in Washington that current operations must be made fail-safe and that the oil companies should not be trusted to do this on their own. Immediately after the Exxon Valdez incident, senate President Kelly began to draw up plans for what he calls a Spill Response Corps, to be organized by the state but paid for by the oil companies "as part of the cost of doing business here." And Governor Cowper insisted on a credible plan by the Alyeska consortium, which runs the pipeline, to deal with...