Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case of dysfunction that has drawn scant public attention. Instead of putting together a large single proposal, Congress has been nibbling at the global-warming issue piecemeal, with opponents throwing up obstacles at almost every turn in the form of directives and riders tacked on to major spending bills so they slip through the legislative process virtually unnoticed. This tactic has environmentalists, no slouches at publicity themselves, crying foul. "A lot of these [proposals] could never be moved in the light of day," says Greg Wetstone, a congressional watchdog for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
...instruments, the virtual dancer reappears in various incarnations. Sometimes it's alone, bathed in purple light; at other times it's part of an elaborate ensemble of virtual dancers. It may be 20 ft. tall and amber, or tiny, white and barely there. Its "body" morphs from a hand-drawn squiggle to an array of dots to a mesmerizing blur. When it's visible, you study its interplay with the live dancers. When it vanishes, you wonder when it will return. At times, the audience gasped...
...course, no longer live in New Jersey, opting for the more exciting, cultured life of Manhattan. Nor do I intend to return; instead I feel drawn toward the easy life of the West Coast. Still, the New York Times makes me mad. That's probably because they rejected me for a job. That's so Jersey...
...DRAWN TO WOMEN...
...been drawn away happy hour and back to night time lecture series. Back to the venues where I just might meet a Washington intern who likes to talk politics, or at the very least, one who knows how to talk...