Word: droving
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...Well, it's nice to see," she told an aide as they drove away in the limousine, in pursuit of silver linings, "that the press now cares about children's issues...
...tributaries, butting heads against the Clinton stonewall--changed the man. He and his lieutenants apparently became persuaded that they were dealing with a kind of ongoing criminal enterprise. The more Clinton stalled, the more Starr pushed. The more Starr pushed, the more Clinton stalled. And in the end, each drove the other to a kind of madness. It's a subject Starr's friends discuss gingerly...
...been woven into the existing Scripture text. A fragment attributed to the writer called E notes a fairly minor miracle, the providential bogging down of the Egyptian chariot wheels in the mud of the seabed. The fragment called J ignores Moses and Aaron, crediting the Lord, who straightforwardly "drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and turned the sea into dry ground," and the Israelites don't even cross the sea; they just watch as the Egyptians are overwhelmed by it. The strand called P bolsters the priestly role, providing the familiar image of Moses...
...greed that drove Stracher to Crowley and Cavanaugh in the first place: "My classmates professed interest in signing up with employers like the ACLU...But by their second year, when interviewers from the biggest firms swarm onto campus waving stacks of cash...few are idealistic enough to resist...
...frenzied stock exchanges drove the price of diversified firms higher than that of the separated parts--the opposite of what happens today. "Investors came to overvalue growth by acquisition," says Walter Wriston, former chairman of Citibank. "That was because of this idea that a good manager could make two plus two equal five...