Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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President Bush made a point of playing up Dukakis' Harvard connections during the 1988 campaign in an attempt to stir up opposition to elitism among rural voters. Among the citizens of Fayette County with whom we lived and worked, we found no resentment toward our Harvard background...
...unaware of its positive involvement with the city. On the contrary, we acknowledge and laud such projects as last year's James Taylor benefit concert for homeless citizens. Such events, however, fail to address the deeper problems of affordable housing and too often serve as ornaments for Harvard to point to or hide behind...
...Crimson fought back fiercely from the deep ditch of defeat. Looking into the precipice, the Crimson's Albert Chang bumped off the Anteaters' Mike Roberts at fourth singles to shatter a personal three-game slide and notch the Crimson's first point...
...council members' interest in a variable meal plan is based on various models at other colleges. One option, practiced by Dartmouth, MIT and Columbia, is the "point system," in which students have a fixed number of credits which are deducted either per item or per meal. Other schools--Boston University is one--employ a combination plan, in which students are guaranteed a certain number of meals per week and pay for the rest with an allotment of meal points...
...that point, I weighed 95 pounds. I had been losing weight steadily since the beginning of the semester, and often did not feel well. Her approval did not temper my dissatisfaction with my diet...