Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...point, an assistant to Murphy offered to reimburse one of the whistle blowers, Stanley Welli, for his legal fees in return for his silence. In a 1988 internal IRS memo that described Welli's appeal for help to the OSC, Murphy scrawled the comment MISTAKE! in the margin. Last March senior IRS officials awarded Murphy a plaque for "exemplary conduct which sets the standard for ethics and integrity for all IRS employees...
...comedy, a big chase and a little sex. It has Demi Moore, pert and intense, every emotion acutely aquiver in fine Debra Winger fashion. But though director Jerry Zucker wants his necrophiliac romance to be sensitive, he pumps up its feelings fortissimo so the dimmest viewer will get the point. And in its vision of death on earth, Ghost is exasperatingly capricious...
Perhaps Bush didn't know about this until it was reported in the New York Times. It's a big bureaucracy. But, at that point, why didn't he pick up a phone and find out what the hell was going on? What else is the point of being nice and being President at the same time? That's what L.B.J. would have done -- not a nice person, affability-wise, but someone who connected his private heart and his public role in more than just talk...
...efforts and goes to work, devoting two or three weeks to each continent or land mass. Africa, hands down the toughest nut, warrants four weeks. "It's got a lot of little countries and weird names," explains Sara Stonberg. There are no tricks to this process, which is the point. Students spend two hours in class each week and another couple of hours on homework, learning the old-fashioned way. They memorize names and shapes, and draw over and over the outlines of countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet Union is particularly nettlesome) until they...
...Muslim pilgrims, a high point of the hajj to Mecca is the trek to Jamarat al 'Akaba in Mina, one of the three stoning points of Satan. Each passing pilgrim must cast pebbles at this rock pillar in a ritual that symbolizes the faithful's struggle against evil. At 10 a.m. last Monday the believers suddenly faced a more earthly trial...