Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Getting rattled doesn't help you perform. At this point we've taken Drexel's $25 billion of inventory positions down to around $1 billion, and I'm too busy to try to figure out the long-term psychological impact on me. But it's been very sad to watch the dismantling of what we built. We were trying to create the most effective investment bank in the country, and for a moment in time, we achieved that...
...There certainly are young athletes who have dreams. We try to make the point that a very small percentage go on to pro careers. But look what the pros are doing to us now: the National Football League is pressuring, and probably will end up drafting, players after their freshman or sophomore years. The tragedy is that we've become minor-league training camps for the pros, a place for young people to build up their strength and experience, to get noticed, before they try to take a shot at the pros...
...this point, disentangle Dan Quayle from Dan Quayle jokes? He seems to induce a short attention span in others, leaving them stunned with a serene vacancy. The New Republic has penalized with mock awards people who are foolhardy enough to speak well of him. Can anyone be taken seriously who takes Quayle seriously...
...Quayle's college professors has an indelible memory of trying to make a point with Quayle, and talking into air. "I looked into those blue eyes, and I might as well have been looking out the window," says William Cavanaugh. But he was the teacher of Quayle's freshman composition course; he had differed with his student over the prose of Whittaker Chambers. Witness, Chambers' portentously anticommunist book, was a kind of bible in the Quayle family. Quayle's tactical incomprehension with Professor Cavanaugh may have been the response of one who knows where ideological conflict goes when...
...tide of history was turning his way. The Nagymaros dam became a focal point for the budding political opposition, and when the government began loosening its policies, he published his original article -- in a much tougher version. Public protests against the dam intensified, and last year Hungary finally terminated the project. Vargha, meanwhile, has emerged as a powerful voice of political reform. A founder of the Alliance of Free Democrats, now the leading opposition party, he was offered an official post within the group. But Vargha, 40, declined. Says he: "I am first and foremost an environmentalist...