Word: pointedness
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But American officials either missed all these warnings or failed to act on them. Not until Northwest Flight 253 was beginning its final descent into Detroit, at about 11:40 Christmas morning, did a handful of passengers step in to do what all the early-warning systems and security personnel...
George W. Bush used to insist that he didn't read polls, and on the off chance that he did, he didn't care anyway. "I don't give a darn," the former President famously said early this year just before the end of his term, when CNN's Larry...
1. Congress cares about polls. Obama's success depends upon his ability to get Congress to do his bidding, and as the polls have soured, this has become a much tougher proposition. With the President's approval rating now dipping below 50% in most polls, Democratic pollsters have begun to...
The Independent (UK): "In our article 'Wikiworld' (3 February 2009) we repeated several claims about Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder: that he had a company that dealt in 'soft porn' and was short-lived: that he had had to defend himself against 'allegations from former colleagues that he used Wikipedia...
The first suspect then pointed the gun at the student’s back after the student asked if the weapon was indeed a gun, according to the write-up. The second suspect then told the first to grab the student’s iPod. The two then took off...