Word: draw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's too young to coast. I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next 20 years. Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists. There are worse things to be, I suppose . . . lazy and poor comes to mind...
...seven-month, $11 million Trans-Antarctica Expedition was conceived by wilderness lovers Will Steger, 45, a Minnesotan who earlier led a historic dogsled trek to the North Pole, and Jean-Louis Etienne, 43, a French physician. Their purpose was to draw attention to the increasingly endangered continent and to foster the international cooperation that can preserve it. The team, whose other members come from the Soviet Union, China, Japan and Britain, is conducting a variety of studies. Among them: recording ozone levels, air temperatures and wind speeds, and taking samples of snow that will be analyzed for pollutants...
...exams draw near and the days grow colder...
They will also be tapping the deep font of goodwill toward aging sports idols. The American male wants to keep seeing athletes do what they once did best. In golf, the senior circuit earns more money than the entire women's tour. Former tennis aces draw big crowds in their own slots at the major tournaments. Boxing, aside from Mike Tyson's bum-of-the-month festival, is one big Over the Hill Gang. Last week's waltz between Sugar Ray Leonard, 33, and Roberto Duran, 38, was the top-grossing fight in history. Next month George Foreman, now bigger...
...draw to a close, Harvard's fundamental goal--to remain "great"--has not altered...