Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...makes quite a point in his memoirs of where he went off the reservation and did what he thought was right, making his own political judgment or his own strategic judgment or his own moral judgment...
...difficult time, because Bill Rogers was my friend. And Rogers I . think had done, really, under the circumstances, a very credible job as Secretary of State. But Kissinger at that point I considered indispensable. With the Watergate problem, we didn't have any choices...
...this point. I see some of my contemporaries on television these days. I don't intend to reach that point. I haven't quite reached it yet. It's ; very important for somebody not to try to stay too long in the public life, particularly in the television age. Some people are surprised at me that I'm ambulatory...
...market, where the Nikkei average closed at 30,372 last week, down 6.9% for the week and 22% from the all-time high it reached last Dec. 29. In a fit of near panic last Thursday, the market plunged 6% in just one morning session -- equivalent to a 162-point drop in the Dow Jones average -- before recovering later in the day to post an overall 3% loss. "We knew it had to come sooner or later. Many of us just stood there blankly," said a floor dealer. Another market watcher described it as a "bottomless swamp." The market edged...
...Bank of Japan first tried intervening in foreign-exchange markets, spending $10 billion, or 17% of the country's currency reserves, to buy yen and dump dollars. Since that proved futile, the central bank last week boosted the key discount rate by a full percentage point, to 5.25%. That is modest enough by U.S. standards, but a huge increase from last May's 2.5% rate...