Word: drew
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Ravi Zacharias, a philosophy scholar and a Christian apologist, drew crowds of more than 350 Thursday and 500 last night to the Law School's Ames Courtroom...
Last year's Game in New Haven, which Yale narrowly won, 23-13, drew 40,091 fans...
...variations among competing surveys -- including one showing deadlock a week before the election -- were caused by difficulties in calculating the increase in turnout. The Perot factor was also hard to parse. The Texan drew many of the voters who said they valued change, and might have continued to surge had he not wounded himself with his reckless charges about Republican dirty tricks. When asked the hypothetical question of how they would have voted had Perot not been on the ballot, Clinton edged Bush by 7 percentage points...
...Oregon's Measure 9, which sought to define homosexuality as "wrong, unnatural and perverse," went down to defeat, 44% to 56%. In Maryland voters approved a proposition guaranteeing the right to abortion. Iowa voters turned down an equal-rights amendment after a bitter fight that drew such national figures as Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Robertson to the state to lobby against...
...Lyndon LaRouche and as an election-eve ritual for major-party candidates, who by then are usually preaching to the converted. Perot, however, made half-hour political ads the centerpiece of his campaign -- with astonishing success. His first program, a lecture on the economy that aired in early October, drew a higher rating than the baseball play-off game it preceded. Though ratings dropped for subsequent broadcasts, Perot's month-long mini-series still did better than many network prime-time shows...