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After six years in which President Bill Clinton's budgets were declared dead on arrival by the Republican majority on Capitol Hill, Republicans said Congress would take Mr. Bush's proposal seriously as it began drawing up its own spending plans.

In the mid-1990s it began drawing more attention to On-A-Slant village, a restored Mandan Indian settlement just feet from the Missouri river.

After 84 years in the shadows of secular monarchs and military autocrats, the Brotherhood dominated last fall's parliamentary elections; it began drawing up plans to revise the Constitution and government ministries, and appeared poised to claim the presidency as well.

The canal's flushing tunnel, which turned the Gowanus, Brooklyn's legendarily filthy waterway, into a bouillabaisse of frolicking sea creatures when it began drawing cleaner water from New York Harbor into the canal last year, has been out of commission since March 14.

There had been fears that cloudy weather would obscure the eclipse but the clouds parted just as it began, drawing cheers from the crowd as the full spectacle came into view.

Whether Afghan forces can take responsibility for securing areas like Kunar remains the central question for NATO as it begins drawing down troops over the coming year toward the goal of transferring all security operations to the Afghan government in 2014.

After that visit, I began drawing salesmen.

For no particular reason, I began drawing the car.

But it soon began drawing out-of-town visitors who were "fascinated that there is a massive urban park" in the heart of Manhattan, he said.

He began drawing it in his free time; he also got a motorcycle so he could go over and study the buildings from the New Jersey shore.

Never one to waste time or an experience, it seems, Mr. Cunningham began drawing about 20 years ago when, faced with an unexpected layover on tour, he decided to sketch a tree outside his hotel window.