Word: drove
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...closely, Mittal and his advisers realized that Arcelor was essentially giving away the company without proper consultation with its own shareholders - and to a little-known Russian with far less of a track record than Mittal. His investment bankers sprang into action and helped foment a shareholder revolt that drove Arcelor into Mittal's arms...
...returning to her urban California home. “You could ask me anytime of the day, I always want to drive. I love driving.” But despite her many accomplishments, Urzua hasn’t mastered the rules of the road. “Mirla once drove over the cement dividers in a Denny’s parking lot,” said long-time friend Glenda M. Aldana ’07. “I think they’re meant to stop you. Not Mirla.” It seems like not much...
...audiences were not disappointed. "He was so inspiring," said Sarah Blodgett, a 30-year-old who drove 30 minutes from her Massachusetts home to attend an Obama book signing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. "He had me on the verge of tears. No politician has been this eloquent and this personable in years." Obama's stump speech includes much of the typical Democratic message - more spending on heath care and education, energy independence and an emphasis on improving relations with other countries, often in words that differ little from what John Kerry said in 2004. ("How can it be that...
...prime minister Rafik Hariri, an event that led to the end of Syria's occupation of Lebanon. Moreover, U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the summer war with Israel, also placed thousands of new U.N. soldiers in southern Lebanon, which had been uncontested Hizballah territory since the group drove Israel out in 2000. "Both sides have decided that this is an existential struggle and that they are in it all the way," said a senior Western diplomat...
...under fire, shoot down at least six enemy planes-immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; in Tucson, Arizona. Taylor, then 21, was on his first assignment at Hawaii's Wheeler Field on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Hearing machine-gun fire, he grabbed Welch and drove to their planes. "I wasn't in the least bit terrified," he later said. "I was too young and too stupid to realize that I was in a lot of danger...