Word: drews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's strident nationalism drew a sour reaction from his many critics. "Sarney declared war on the world today," said Fabio Feldman, a Congressman from Sao Paulo who is a vocal environmentalist. "He's trying to - rally public support around a discredited government." Feldman declared the Our Nature program itself "too academic and vague. It won't change a thing." Said another leading ecologist: "It is obvious that the intention of the program is not to save the Amazon but to appease foreign criticism...
Pickens' foray drew flak from Tokyo investors, who saw the move as an attempt to elicit greenmail -- the money that a company pays raiders when it buys back their shares at a costly premium. The Japanese government is investigating whether Pickens ambushed Koito by teaming up with secret partners who unethically bought shares for him under their own names...
Offut increasingly drew fire from E4D's other directors, who said he was not adequately promoting the group. He ended up resigning his post, and the council and E4D came to share no more than a mailing address...
...Medalist Drew Steffens, 74, was largely responsible for Dartmouth's 383 total which bested second-place Amherst's 386 and host Tufts...
...wasn't so much the blue boxer shorts with Red Sox logos or the red knee stockings the 62-year-old Cullen was wearing that attracted attention. It was the beachball hat stuffed and sewn together like a baseball by his wife that drew stares...