Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Underscoring his point, tens of thousands of citizens took part in marches all across France last week to register their disgust with bigotry. In the Paris protest, which drew some 80,000 people, members of all religions and political parties -- except Le Pen's -- rallied together for the first time in recent memory. Even President Francois Mitterrand was there, marking the first time since Paris' liberation in 1945 that a French head of state has taken to the streets to demonstrate...
...Timmer takes charge, analysts expect to see more layoffs and other aggressive forms of cost cutting. But that rare commodity, confidence, may be returning: as soon as Timmer's appointment was announced, Philips stock nudged up 1 point...
...firmly believes that in the future, America will be "multicolored" and had better be ready to make the most of it. Some 16 years ago, he tried to start a community college in the Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto in Brooklyn (it failed for lack of funding). Perhaps the high point of his career was the years at CUNY where, with fighting-Irish brio, he led the fray surrounding the open-admissions policy, in the early '70s a divisive urban issue. "It was so simple at CUNY," he sighs. "There were no agendas, no politicking. Your task was clear: educate the poor...
...gave me a sense of how high I loomed in the large scale of scholarship, and that's good for a young graduate student." He became a protege of Dame Helen Gardner, the eminent Donne scholar, who also had a keen sense of scale. "The point of wide reading is absorption, not citation," was her comment on one showy Healy effort. "I've used that line many times since," he says, "and I can't say I've always attributed...
...look insoluble, at least from a technical viewpoint. Negotiators long ago settled on the cuts -- roughly 50% -- to be made in the most devastating nuclear weapons: warheads carried by land- and submarine-based ballistic missiles and aircraft. But proliferating cruise missiles presented more difficulty. The U.S. at one point thought it had Moscow's agreement to leave sea-launched cruise missiles out of the treaty; each side would merely make "politically binding" declarations of how many it intended to deploy. Last week the U.S. essentially got its way when the Soviets agreed to a separate declaration outside the main treaty...