Word: drew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mates choose to keep their fire door open all the time. "Within a week of school starting, one of my roommates was dating this girl across the way," Peraud said. "In the beginning, we'd go and shut it, but it always got opened up again. Then my roommate drew up this petition for us to sign saying that it was okay to leave the door open." Another roommate in the group, Christian Ruff '98 added, "Whenever my roommate and his girlfriend fight, there are always ten people involved." Defeated, he said, "Now that it's open, it stays open...
...build confidence among skeptics. The mood of the nation is ripe. Last year survey takers reported that U.S. computer owners listed politics online as one of their highest priorities. And the newest political parties and movements often show a high-tech underpinning. Ross Perot's 1992 organizers, for example, drew their highest ratios of petition signers in high-tech strongholds -- from Massachusetts' Route 128 across the nation to Silicon Valley and Silicon Prairie. Upbeat theorists are prognosticating a ``virtual Washington'' in which members of Congress can debate and vote from back home, and several Representatives have asked to be allowed...
...council also held a public hearing which drew more than 150 Cantabrigians to discuss cutbacks in social services proposed by Republicans in the House of Representatives...
...Gillian Armstrong's Little Women and Thurman for her portrayal of a heroin-sniffing Mob wife in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Hawke has been winning rave reviews for his role as a charmingly scruffy, Auden-quoting romantic in Before Sunrise. In the meantime, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore (the former E.T. child star and teenage drug abuser who has matured into a confident young actress) have garnered praise for their performances in the current girl-bonding hit Boys on the Side. Critics have also been smitten by that other winsome (albeit unrelated) Parker, Sarah Jessica, who plays...
...much money on transportation, pulling its workers out too soon and proselytizing. ``They were laying on hands,'' an American aid worker recalls, ``speaking in tongues and holding services while people were dying all around.'' Many relief agencies are notorious for mismanagement and backbiting, but even considering that, Operation Blessing drew a considerable volume of negative reviews from fellow Samaritans...