Word: draw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of COCA said they distributed the notices to draw attention to U.S. involvement in El Salvador and spark debate at Harvard...
...less than three years of schooling; this, says Larson, could have brought down their test scores. The exams may also have failed to take into account the normal decline in mental acuity that comes with aging. Asks Dr. Leonard Kurland of the Mayo Clinic: "Where do you draw the line and say this is normal and this is not?" Nonetheless, one implication of the study is very clear -- and frightening: since people 85 or older make up the fastest-growing segment of the population, Alzheimer's could have devastating consequences for the country's already strained health-care system...
With only 17 hours to spare, Congress passed and George Bush signed a bill lifting the U.S. debt ceiling to $3.12 trillion, thus averting a default. Granted authority to draw on an additional $250 billion of other people's money, the Treasury is again able to pay the Government's bills...
...month ago, though, few people were predicting a smash. The movie's star, Kirstie Alley of TV's Cheers, was an unproven marquee draw. Its male leads, Travolta and George Segal, were long past their luster. Critics mostly dumped on the picture or ignored it. Savants figured, in fact, that it had about as much chance of being a hit as, say, a single sperm has of fertilizing...
MacKenzie Brackman doesn't have that problem, though. Its attorneys do take on their share of pro bono work. But other aspects of the show sometimes draw criticism from the literal-minded fans in Harkness Commons. "It's the behavior you always think of--Perry Mason pacing back and forth--but you would never actually see that," one third-year student says of the "L.A. Law"yers' courtroom demeanor. "You want to direct attention to the witness and not yourself...