Word: draw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suitors. The maneuvering began on March 28, when NWA announced that another investment group had amassed a 4.9% stake in the company and might make a takeover bid. NWA promptly rejected the overture. While the unidentified group has not been heard from since, word of its interest apparently helped draw Davis into the contest. His bid pushed NWA's stock price from 68 1/4 in late March to 88 3/4 at the end of last week...
Scanlon said that during his seven-month fellowship, he will draw from published articles and ideas he has been developing since the early 1980s to write a book on "contractualist" moral philosophy...
Where Mickey fails to draw us into the world of Russian court affairs, Adam Schwartz, as a vodka-guzzling, bearish Patiomkin duly succeeds. Schwartz is most endearing as the sotted-out relation to the Great Catherine. Everyone is "a darkbg" in Patiomkn's eyes, and Shwartz plays the part to the hilt, lavishing his fellow character with Leo Buscaglian hugs and kisses. When the English Captain Edstaston (Orion Ross) arrives on the scene to arrange an audience with the Great Catherine, Patiomkin dutifully obliges, throwing the Englishman on his back and literally dropping him off at the Empress's private...
...supplemental appropriation does not include $37.3 million for interest payments on loans, and the legislature may therefore need to draw up a second supplemental budget to cover these costs...
...dacha (twelve miles outside Moscow) where Daniel spent the last years of his life, the police turned up unexpectedly and announced in embarrassment that as foreigners we were "violating a forbidden zone." The good-natured policemen did little to hide the fact that they were being forced to draw up a report on the orders of the KGB. The quiet snowfall beyond the window, reminding us of an old-style Russian winter, was our reward for this "violation...