Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sincerity that carried the day. "The Kohl of 1990 is not the Kohl of 1986," said Vladimir Shenayev, deputy director of Moscow's Institute of Europe. "Even a year ago, Kohl would have said that a unified Germany would be a member of NATO and there was no point in discussing it. Now he's showing an ability to compromise." The promise of financial aid helped: having already pledged some $3 billion in credits to Moscow, Kohl agreed to sign a comprehensive economic pact with the Soviet Union...
Still, SRY is just one element in the mystery of maleness. "Sex determination involves a whole pathway of genes," observes MRC researcher Robin Lovell-Badge. "Now we have an entry point...
...this point, the film really has the potential to take off. The misfit miscreants have escaped the massed forces of the New York Police Department, but can they escape New York itself? Chief Rotzinger doesn't think so. "Our only hope," he says prophetically, "is that they're mired down in the same shit we have to wade through every...
THERE ARE SOME things the Italians love about the U.S., and some they feel a bit more ambivalent about. Breakfast, for example, which they take 45 minutes to eat, is often the high point of their morning. But it's just hard for me not to feel a bit queasy when I see Enrico putting sugar on his Captain Crunch and in his glass of milk...
...genial but morally weightless young man. When he learns that other salespeople in his home-security firm are running a sideline in burglary -- for the loot and to generate additional sales -- he assumes it has nothing to do with him. Tragically late, he finds that it does. Reddin's point, no less forceful for being familiar, is that the unexamined life is not worth living...