Word: drew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton drew nominal primary challengers and no general election competition to become Arkansas' attorney general. Same story in 1978, when he became the nation's youngest governor. Even after a near-fatal defeat in his 1980 re-election bid, Clinton faced a weak incumbent in 1982. Skipping forward 10 years, he won the Democratic nomination for president from a field widely considered the party's second-string, and went on to face George Bush, who was not exactly grounded in the political reality of his time. Now, in 1996, he faces Bob Dole. Tough...
...inspiration to the NBA, which is launching its own women's league, the WNBA, next summer. But the ABL faces formidable challenges, with no national television exposure, no national ad campaign, and just one major sponsor, Reebok. Still, the success of the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team, which drew sellout crowds in Atlanta, and continually improving television ratings for college games like the NCAA Women's Final Four, have a number of people betting that a league can succeed. "What we saw at the Olympics was the U.S. Women's Dream Team drawing the largest crowds in the history...
...took about 10 minutes for the Crimson to open the scoring. Coming just after a string of three Wildcat corners--their only corners of the half--DiMarzio drew a corner on the opposite end of the field. Clark, usually the main shooter, made a hard pass to freshman Dominique Kalil, who plunked the ball into the cage...
...Goleman drew from a wealth of research in psychology and other social sciences to show that children who exhibit restraint and empathy are most successful in high school, college and the workplace...
...bridge with a greenhouse at one end and a 500-ft. residential glass tower with hanging gardens at the other. Other proposals included a zig-zag span with a ribbon-like tower that twists 800 ft. into the sky and an organic tube in fluorescent pink and green that drew immediate comparisons to an alien spaceship. Nigel Coates, the only architect among the seven for whom Prince Charles has ever shown enthusiasm, designed what from river level looks like two acorns moored to the chassis of a racing car, but which the Daily Telegraph claimed would look from...