Word: drove
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...only thing everyone agrees on is that the fighting was exceptionally fierce, revealing a higher level of organization and coordination by the insurgents than had been seen before. The G.I.s drove into synchronized attacks on opposite ends of Samarra, about 70 miles north of Baghdad, as twin U.S. convoys escorted trucks delivering new post-Saddam currency to two city banks. The Americans were on general alert, traveling with plenty of heavy armor...
...strident opposition of locals—like the fool who said of Harvard’s proposed modern art museum in the Riverside neighborhood, “if you build it, we’re going to bomb it”—that drove the University from pursuing further expansion in Cambridge; it was the unwillingness of many city council members to reign in those radical elements and work to help find meaningful solutions to Harvard’s space crunch on this side of the river...
...same time as the University is seeing its revenue sources drying up, spending increases of over 10 percent in certain cardinal budget areas—student aid, compensation and costs associated with maintaining the physical plant—drove expenditures higher in FY03...
Barbara Erlandson was cruising along the information superhighway when she spotted her dream home on eRealty.com Erlandson, a marketing consultant in Leesburg, Va., saw images of a 200-year-old stucco house with hardwood floors and three fireplaces. That evening she drove by the house and, when she got home, dropped an e-mail to an agent at eRealty. The next day she visited the place with the agent and soon made an offer. A week after closing, she received a rebate check from eRealty for $4,250, equal to 1% of the purchase price...
...frustrating,” Rogus said. “They...had good help defense, so that every time we drove the lane, there were at least two people there...