Word: drew
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...dinner drew more than 300 alums, associates and friends of the IOP, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), former Iowa senator John C. Culver and Dillon Professor of Government Emeritus Richard E. Neustadt...
...industry has attracted numerous lawsuits around the country filed by customers who claim they have been ripped off. In a case that drew considerable public attention, an Alabama jury found Mercury Finance liable for fraud involving an auto-loan scheme that allegedly netted the firm hundreds of millions of dollars. The collection agencies that work hand in glove with the lenders have also been targeted for harassing or even threatening delinquents...
Hendry appreciates the fact that the 30th is a Democratic district that incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson drew for herself. He believes he can claim it for for the Republicans by proposing a platform of tort reform, gasoline-tax reduction, closure of the IRS, term limits, law and order, family values, the right to life, and limited government. It is likely Hendry will face Johnson again in a runoff...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "While we have been saying publicly that we wanted to achieve a color-blind society, Ms. Johnson drew these lines to encompass minorities...
...draw people to this desert valley, providing almost no water and no arable land. But when people began to scratch below the surface, they discovered there was a reason to move to Nevada: silver. Miners came in the mid-1800s, and visions of a different kind of silver drew even more speculators when casinos began to open in the 1960s. Nevada is traditionally Democratic, but an influx of newcomers in the 1980s has given Republicans a foothold here. But however inhospitable the Sagebrush State may be to farmers (and moderates), Democrats see the Second District's open seat as fertile...