Word: drew
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...said the bombing, in which explosives in a parked car injured 15 people, was another sign of an all-out war by Islamic fundamentalists against the peace process. But the attack failed to overshadow the unprecedented appearances before Congress. Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin drew whoops and standing ovations from U.S. lawmakers by vowing to make their peace agreement work at home. The show doesn't come cheap. Jordan is seeking forgiveness of $1 billion it owes the U.S. -- something Congress must approve...
...discovery of a hard-core-pornography cache at one of three U.S. weapons labs exposed the Internet's steamy underside but mostly drew yawns from experienced Net users. Tens of thousands of illicit computer-porn sites now litter the system; and the cache, uncovered by the Los Angeles Times at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, near San Francisco, so far appears to have been an inside job, started by someone within...
...death of even one U.S. soldier," vs. 39% who disagreed. But when respondents were asked whether they approved of "sending U.S. troops to Haiti along with troops from other countries," the breakdown was almost the exact opposite: 51% in favor, 39% opposed. Unilateral intervention, on the other hand, drew only 17% support, with 75% against the idea...
...says that she has filled an order for aprofessor at Harvard Business School and made adonation of books to a man, Drew Hanson, making asolicitation on Harvard Writing Center'snotepaper...
...television ratings were a triumph, if you listened to the promoters. Brazil vs. America drew 32 million viewers on the Fourth of July, with parades and picnics as the game's principal competition. Not bad. That's as many people as tune in for the average American Football Conference match on a November Sunday. Look at it a different way, and the ratings were a disaster: the biggest game in U.S. soccer history drew only as many viewers as a yawner between the Cincinnati Bengals and New England Patriots on a day when raking leaves is usually the alternative...