Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...shop, the staff approached the local police stations and hospitals to announce their presence and to seek advice and assistance. Out on the street there was initial tension with the pimps, who felt threatened by any aid to their workers. But that quickly changed. "We have made the point that we are looking out for their kids," says Russo. "We are keeping their stable clean...
...Bush presidency, they are capable of inflicting political damage. Phillips and other conservatives, encouraged by the election of independent Walter Hickel as Governor of Alaska on an antitax platform last month, are organizing what they call the U.S. Taxpayers Party. Phillips concedes that the party lacks a "rallying point" so far. But the incipient revolt could drain off crucial Bush votes...
...need a group of people brave enough to be willing to set down a point of view for the next five to ten years and then to develop a consensus that will replace the one-year-at-a-time haggling...
Similar pleadings for patience resounded on Capitol Hill last week. In various congressional hearings, the Administration's gulf-policy point men did their best to convince lawmakers that war was the only way to dislodge Saddam from Kuwait if he did not leave by the U.N.-imposed deadline of Jan. 15. But Democrat after Democrat, including many who early on had heartily supported Bush's handling of the crisis, took the floor to rebut the Administration's witnesses and press them to give economic sanctions against Iraq time to produce results. "If we have war," said Senator Sam Nunn...
...that Saddam gets much of his news from CNN. He hears the loud and cacophonous tones of dissension emanating from Congress, and they tell him that the American will to fight for the sake of Kuwait is less firm than the Administration wants him to think. Baker acknowledged that point last week, admonishing the House Foreign Relations Committee, "When you say, 'Wait, wait, wait, wait,' that undercuts a strategy that is showing every possibility of working...