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Appeared in the October 10, 2025, print edition as 'Levi Strauss Raises Fiscal-Year Outlook as Turnaround Drives Growth'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Drives are on for both kinds of measures in Colorado.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Drives that store less sensitive data are spared, but the CDI estimates that 90% of hard drives are destroyed when they are removed.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2023

Every time I mention it, you get people cheering, "Yeah, I hate it. Drives me up the wall."

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2023

“They’re all good. And the only people who make any money are the patent lawyers. Drives my mother crazy.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck