Word: drew
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...idea of having police liaisons drew strong support several years back, when charges of racial discrimination leveled against HUPD led to widespread clamoring for police reforms...
Despite new flak in Congress for bypassing that body in fashioning his $20 billion Mexican rescue plan, President Clinton drew plaudits from U.S. and international investors. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and a few senior Democrats defended the president's move, but some members, such as Rep. Robert Menendez, (D-N.J), complained that Congress had been "shut out." Hard-right Republicans, meanwhile, are calling for an investigation of the Administration's role in Mexico's Dec. 20 decision to devalue the peso. Nonetheless, business leaders almost unanimously praised Clinton's move: International investors said the plan had likely staved...
...department said "human rights violations span the globe, and no region has a monopoly on abuses." Nonetheless, Russia was singled out for its prolonged and fierce suppression of the rebellion in Chechnya, then slammed for President Boris Yeltsin's failure to prevent arbitary arrests and illegal searches. China drew fire as "an authoritarian state" that tortured political prisoners and waged a war of repression in neighboring Tibet. The verdicts come amid conflicting signals within the Clinton Adminsitration, including a constructive engagement policy on China and a push to increase U.S. aid to Russia. "We stick up for human rights...
Even though Committee Chair John Porter (R-Ill.) was "rather amazed" at all of the attention that the CPB hearings drew, he was fully aware of CPB's symbolic significance for both parties. If he were serious about cutting the budget, he would not have wasted his party's energy on such a fiscally insignificant battle...
Some of the most chilling accusations came from a witness who won't be able to testify. In November prosecutors opened Nicole's safety-deposit box. Inside they found an archive detailing her abuse at O.J.'s hands, including a written narrative that she drew up for her lawyer during the couple's 1992 divorce proceedings. In it she describes being knocked around by Simpson as early as 1977. When she accused him that year of sleeping with another woman, Nicole wrote, "He threw a fit, chased me, grabbed me, threw me into walls." In a New York hotel room...