Word: drew
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...proposal for a new transfer tax and $20 million bond authorization aimed at contracting companies to purchase former rent-controlled apartments drew support from residents and tenant advocacy groups, such as the Campaign to Save 2,000 Homes. Under the plan, firms would then rent the units to tenants at affordable prices...
Harvard held its opponent's field goal percentage under 40 percent for the second time during the weekend, with Yale shooting only 35 percent for the game. Nevertheless, it wasn't Yale's ineffective offense that drew attention, but rather Harvard's own explosiveness...
...from Domingo, the city approved a zoning variance so that the store could be converted into an opera house. Scheduled to open in 2001, it will cost more than $100 million. "I hope that our opera house will rival the world's top houses," says city council member Charlene Drew Jarvis, who chairs the economic-development committee. "Paris has nothing on us for the future...
When pigskin pundits debate how the Patriots turned their rattletrap 6-10 record last year into a first-class ticket to New Orleans this year, the name Terry Glenn usually pops up. The rookie receiver's six touchdowns and 90 regular-season catches (a rookie record) helped turn quarterback Drew Bledsoe's airborne attack into one of the deadliest in the league and led the Pats to an impressive reversal of fortune. This season the team finished 11-5, first in the A.F.C. East...
...cause of movie star Scientologists like Tom Cruise and John Travolota. In full-page newspaper ads last week, Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Stone and a host of other entertainers angrily compared the discrimination against Scientologists to Germany?s anti-semitic persecutions in the 1930s, a comparison that itself drew outraged criticism from Americans who felt it trivialized the Holocaust. For their part, German authorities claim the church is a profit-oriented enterprise opposed to democratic principals that exerts psychological pressure on its members. "We take American criticism seriously, but our special historical experience gives us the right to act. There...