Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...events through a catchy, pop-culture prism: Dukakis is the personification of "safe sex"; Jackson is "the Cat in the Hat." The / author is best at describing intractable topics, such as the complex origins of Bush's foreign policy. But when politics intrudes, he sometimes seems to miss the point. Blumenthal is still at pains to explain Hart's "philosophy" -- something that in the public mind boiled down to little more than unsafe sex -- and he makes no attempt to explain the self-destructive impulses involved in the Donna Rice affair. Similarly, Blumenthal accuses the Dukakis campaign of "intellectual" failures...
...Bush Administration views the 30% cuts as "grossly inadequate" and U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills warned last week that the Uruguay Round is "in jeopardy" because of the E.C.'s stubbornness on farm subsidies. To underscore her point, U.S. trade negotiators plan this week to propose reductions of as much as 70% in all worldwide domestic farm subsidies, plus even heavier cuts in export subsidies and greater market access for such agricultural imports as corn and wheat in the E.C., sugar and dairy products in the U.S. and rice in Japan. The so-called Cairns Group of 14 agricultural- exporting...
...Americans who has the last word on their constitutional rights, and they will usually point to the U.S. Supreme Court. But last week, as David Souter appeared certain to win Senate confirmation of his seat on the nation's highest bench after a 13-to-1 vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee, some of the most important pitched battles of American jurisprudence were being fought far away from Washington, in the supreme court houses of the 50 states. Despite the success of the Reagan and Bush administrations at placing hundreds of conservative nominees on federal benches, a growing number...
Brawny, brainy and wondrously balanced, Oakland is a team for all seasons: spring, summer and post. The A's motored through summer 1990 as if it were one long exhibition series; at one point down the stretch, they were a full 10 games ahead of the next best team in either league. With the brute precision of Caesar's army, the A's secured a third consecutive A.L. West title and are odds-on favorites to win their second straight World Series. Make way for the Harvard Business School of sports teams: Dynasty Inc. "If, as seems likely...
...American pipelines rely on unique, no-spareparts components which take Japanese firms an average of two years to manufacture. The U.S. does not have any of these items "in storage." And because some of these parts require a constant flow of oil to operate, stopping the flow at one point can break down an entire pipeline...