Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...never been such a sight at the entrance to the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of disabled people abandoned their wheelchairs and crawled up the steep stone steps on knees, elbows and backs. The climb was not really necessary. The Capitol is equipped with ramps and elevators for wheelchairs. But the point was to rally support for the Americans with Disabilities Act, which would require public buildings and transportation systems to accommodate the disabled...
...refusing to guarantee the Polish borders, Kohl allowed much of the world to point the finger and say, See, there they go again. As Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki told TIME last week, "All the recent ambiguous statements on the issue have convinced us that we are correct in demanding that the border be confirmed before Germany's unification...
...this a deal in the making or just one more step in the annual dance between the Democrats and the White House? Almost every year Washington's divided Government hints at a grand compromise, then scrambles away as both sides point fingers and duck for cover. Last April the flirtation culminated in a bipartisan Rose Garden budget ceremony. The cooperation ended when Bush proposed a capital-gains...
...sort of like taking time out in a basketball game when the point guard starts shooting air balls. We said, "Let's just shut the damn thing down." Fortunately, we've got longer than a 20-second time-out. We're going back to square one, and we're gonna get it right. And if we can't operate that thing right, we won't operate it at all. You can carry all of this further, away from Exxon, and look at the whole industry's problems. In 1989 there were 368 spills just in New York harbor...
...have a point. Labor experts say many employers may actually welcome strikes as an opportunity to shatter union power. With the use of permanent replacement workers, observed Peter Laarman, a spokesman for the United Auto Workers, "labor disputes often are not really about wages or benefits or working conditions, but rather about getting rid of the union altogether." That may become even easier if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Curtin Matheson Scientific in its case against the National Labor Relations Board. The Houston company is seeking to establish that an employer can reasonably assume that nonunion replacement workers...