Word: drews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than four years, the two governments have been negotiating a joint effort to develop a new generation of fighter jet that would patrol the island nation's shipping lanes and support its defense forces in the 1990s. When a tentative deal was first reached last November, the project drew heavy fire from officials within the Commerce Department, who contended that the U.S. would reveal so much advanced aviation technology to Japanese defense contractors that they could develop a civilian aircraft industry that would compete with such U.S. producers as Boeing and McDonnell Douglas...
...first officially sanctioned street demonstrations since last fall, when legislation for sweeping political reforms was introduced, including a multiparty system for the socialist state. Thousands more Hungarians marked National Day by heading -- literally -- for the exits. Easy access to passports and a loosening of foreign-currency rules drew swarms of Hungarian tourists to Vienna's main shopping thoroughfare, where they scooped up stereos and VCRs from special shops bedecked with Hungarian flags that accepted normally nonconvertible Hungarian forints...
...Joslin drew a foul and broke Harvard's jinx on a bounce-shot goal with 16:30 remaining in the second half...
...roommate this spring, Abbott drew Rick Turner, the bullpen catcher, who partnered Angels outfielder Devon White through the Pioneer League but never made it past A ball himself. "As a kid, I used to hang out at the stadium," Turner says. "Now I'm a fan who gets to put on a uniform. It's not that I have visions of a comeback. I guess I dream of being a coach." Into the night, he and Abbott explore the minor leagues and the various levels of dreaming...
...fault is not entirely Janowitz's. Her only hope was to find a director who could either respond avidly to the sexual and creative energies of the avant-garde scene or take a satirical cudgel to it. Instead, she drew distant, enervated James Ivory (A Room with a View, Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), who never seems to engage fully with any subject he has tackled and who has never been more fastidiously withdrawn than he is here. In this case, however, audiences will be well advised to follow his example...