Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pinnacle of amateur sport in the U.S, college athletics, has been a joke for years. Large universities make millions of dollars in television and licensing contracts thanks to talented basketball and football recruits often drawn from poor urban communities; most of these schools could care less whether the so-called student-athletes receive good educations...
...reliance on foreign oil spawns problems abroad like the morass the nation has been drawn into in the Middle East. In addition to our economic vulnerability to OPEC policy and our morally questionable military entanglements, we contribute heftily to the economies of some quite un-democratic nations in the region with our oil purchases. Oil exploration has also led to other (underpublicized) foreign affairs debacles like the virtual plunder of Ecuador by Texaco and Shell's appalling exploitation of Nigerian oil in cooperation with the despotic government...
...fellows, announced yesterday, will study at the KSG's Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, each researching a particular topic drawn from their real-world media experience...
...board in the St. Louis Trans World Dome scrolls WELCOME TO THE EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION WITH HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II. The Dome's 70,000 capacity is stretched to 100,000. Betty and Ed, after hours on a chartered yellow school bus and in line for metal detectors, have drawn spectacular second-row seats: they can almost touch the stream of priests flowing across the floor toward the great papal seal. A jumbo screen shows the approaching Popemobile, just half an hour away. She twists a silver ring again and again around her middle finger...
There's something wonderfully reliable about the people who write letters to the editor. At the receiving end of the missives, both paper and electronic, we begin the week by placing bets on what articles will prompt a big response and how the battle lines will be drawn. (Hey, we take our fun where we find...