Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Newspapers write that, but they are wrong. Of course, there is a certain urgency, but it is not caused by me. I feel that urgency. When I drew up the ten-point unification program in the Bundestag last November, I started with a completely different time frame. I thought that in 1990 we would have a contractual or treaty-based community with East Germany, that in 1991 or 1992 we would have confederative structures. Then in 1993 or 1994 we could have unification...
...cleanup bill mounts, political mudslinging is likely to increase. "The Government needs a sideshow to shift focus from the cost of dealing with the problem," says Paul Horvitz, a finance professor at the University of Houston. At this point, the biggest new scandal would be to push the increased bailout cost into the future by borrowing more money. Felix Rohatyn, the Manhattan investment banker and fiscal gadfly, proposed last week that the Government pay for the bailout with a 5% surcharge on federal income taxes, which could raise $25 billion to $35 billion a year. Borrowing the money instead...
Even when it's not a question of race, race is always a question. A school- merger debate is raging, with race the stumbling block. Guilford County residents, whose school system is 81% white, are resisting entreaties to merge with Greensboro (51% black) and High Point (50% black) schools. Greensboro delayed significant desegregation and busing for years, and now many parents -- black and white -- wonder whether the mixing has worked. "I'm not saying integration was wrong," says Greensboro councilwoman Alma Adams, who is black, "but it did cause a lot of problems we didn't think about...
...American goods less expensive overseas. Since 1985, the dollar has fallen 43% against major world currencies. American firms have also shown greater flexibility in negotiating trade deals. More U.S. companies are willing to barter or accept payment in local currency instead of dollars, notes consultant Matt Schaffer of Sand Point, Idaho, author of The Countertrade...
Penrose's first major point is that the human mind can reach insights that are forever inaccessible to computers. The reason is that all digital computers operate according to algorithms, or sets of rules that prescribe how to solve problems. Yet there are problems that cannot be approached by any system of rules, a fact shown in the 1930s by the mathematician Kurt Godel. Godel's theorem establishes that in any mathematical system there must be certain propositions that are obviously true but that can never be proved within the rules of the system...