Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notes that in the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King's death, WILD suspended its usual rhythm-and-blues format and devoted its hours to news and commentary on the assassination. While numerous black callers pelted the radio station with calls for an end to integration, Lukas' attention is drawn to a white woman from Lexington who called to ask Boston's lone black city councilor "what we can do to help the Negro community...
...past month Stratfor has drawn attention to a carefully assembled open-source report that asserted that last month's attack on Iraq wasn't intended just to punish Saddam Hussein for blowing off U.N. weapons inspectors. By sorting through thousands of pieces of publicly available data--from Middle East newspapers to Iraqi-dissident news--Stratfor analysts developed a theory that the attacks were actually designed to mask a failed U.S.-backed coup. In two striking, contrarian intelligence briefs released on the Internet on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, Stratfor argued that Saddam's lightning restructuring of the Iraqi military, followed...
...Fosse had a pop-culture counterpart, it was Billy Wilder, Hollywood's cynic in chief. Indeed, his Double Indemnity would have made a perfect Fosse show, for both men were drawn to seamy stories like a fly to manure: Sweet Charity is about a prostitute manque, Chicago two murderesses, and the film version of Cabaret, Fosse's greatest achievement, is a veritable saturnalia of sexual variation. And while the fatalistic Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries is Fosse's unlikely theme song, some of the cherries in this particular bowl are unnervingly sour. Robbins and Fred Astaire may have...
...Animated show about inner-city family that has drawn protests from African-American groups...
...billion in market cap last week, and with dynamite earnings potential: Yahoo. These two heavyweights, by coincidence, held overlapping conference calls last week to discuss their fourth-quarter earnings reports with investment professionals. Intel is a bellwether because of its ubiquity in personal computers, so it has always drawn the bigger group of acolytes--until this year. Yahoo muscled in with runaway revenue projections, and suddenly many investment pros, who would normally have stopped everything to get on an Intel call, instead stayed through till the end of Yahoo's presentation to get the skinny on this new, great growth...