Word: droving
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...astonished by Melissa Crocker's "Editorial Notebook" (Sept. 21) on the honorary degree ceremony arranged for Nelson Mandela. One has to wonder at the impulse which drove her to pen such a peevish piece. I would with no hesitation place Mandela among the most extraordinary figures of the twentieth century...
...strategy backfired. As the three major carriers became engaged in a bidding war for customers, the competition drove rates way down...
With a chance to save what had become a frustrating afternoon, Harvard's offense drove down to the Lehigh 11-yard line, where it would have had a third-and-seven. After his run, however, junior running back Chris Menick drew a personal foul penalty for shoving Lehigh senior safety Sam Brinley right in front of two officials...
...know what he was thinking," Brinley said. "I hit him in the hole, drove him back and threw him down, and the kid hops up and double-fists me in the face. I just walked away, tried to shake his hand and say, `Thank you for the 15 yards...
...computers were programmed with historical relationships among various global bond yields and other financial instruments. They looked for discrepancies in those relationships and bet that they would return to their historical norms. But the deepening global crisis caused a flight to the safety of U.S. Treasury bonds, which drove up prices that Meriwether's computers said should be falling. The resulting losses chopped Long Term Capital's net worth from $4.8 billion in January to just $600 million last week...