Word: drew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coalition is apparently heartened rather than daunted by the fate of two propositions to regulate HMOs that appeared on last November's ballot. Both lost but drew about 40% of the vote--even though supporters of one measure were outspent nearly 50 to 1 by their foes. The more restrictive of the two measures, significantly, was drafted largely by the California Nurses Association. Nurses fear that HMOs want to squeeze them out of many jobs and replace them with low-paid technicians...
...begin the day with fiction instead of the news had a transforming effect on the news. When 9 o'clock came, force of habit drew me to the shop where the papers arrive, and for the time it took to read them, I would lay aside, say, Wolff's The Rich Brother, a brooding short story about two brothers joined by fear and hatred, or O'Nan's novel The Names of the Dead, about a man who cannot leave the Vietnam War behind...
...warmer celebration of family bonds than, say, Leave It to Beaver or The Donna Reed Show. Today there are new taboos. "Nobody's going to do abortion on a sitcom today, but Maude did it back in 1972," says Bruce Helford, co-creator and executive producer of The Drew Carey Show. He's referring to the famous episodes of Maude in which Bea Arthur's title character not only considered having an abortion, as a number of TV characters have in years since, but actually went out and got one. "Abortion," Helford believes, "is way too hot a subject...
...that Ellen is going to take a hit on this," says Dick Wolf, creator of Law & Order. "If it was my show I probably wouldn't have done it. This is one specific area that a large percentage of the population is still very uncomfortable with." Bruce Helford, the Drew Carey producer, is more bullish: "I think there will be a big spike in the ratings. But if it's just one big thing and then they go back to the same show, and she's a lesbian, but the same old things happen to her, the boost...
Forst was out at third, but sophomore Andy Huling singled to load the bases. Captain Peter Albers drew Harvard within one with a walk...