Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Mortgage Insurance Fund, which guarantees about 690,000 home loans each year, has suffered a high rate of defaults because of sloppy supervision and falling real estate values. The fund's net worth has plunged from $8 billion in 1979 to $2.6 billion currently. Kemp has outlined a five-point plan to keep the fund solvent. His proposal would improve management and increase the premiums and fees homebuyers pay on FHA-insured loans. The unfortunate side of the tighter conditions is that as many as 35,000 lower-income families may not be able to afford the higher costs...
...dominated by an eleven-member council, Gantt proved adept at consensus building. He effectively promoted growth and pushed through the building of a sports coliseum that attracted an N.B.A. franchise. He was re-elected resoundingly in 1985. Then his success, in a sense, overtook him. Charlotte thrived to the point of attracting huge traffic snarls, which his 1987 Republican opponent, Sue Myrick, exploited...
...suggests that there is nothing new about child warriors, partly because in centuries past youngsters were looked upon as small adults, and thus the sight of them in combat was less horrifying. But there is a difference between being trained to fight and being used to make a symbolic point. In the Children's Crusade of the 13th century, the thousands of boys and girls who were dispatched from Europe to the Holy Land went off unarmed and undefended; their very youth was meant to awe the enemy. Most died of disease or starvation along the way; many of those...
...Chester Gould's comic strip about the big-city detective with a right-angle jaw. Batman, the comic-strip blockbuster of 1989, had entranced moviegoers with its dark, brooding take on urban corruption. Would the brighter, perkier Dick Tracy seem of less heft? More to the box-office point, would young people want to see the movie? Who is Dick Tracy anyway? The strip runs in only about half the 550 newspapers that carried it in the Eisenhower years. And who's this Warren Beatty? He hasn't had a big hit since Heaven Can Wait in 1978, a lifetime...
...because of Silber's energy and commitment. No way, counters James H. Sledd, a former English professor at the University of Texas who taught under | Silber. "We don't need any more people who know they're right. They are the most dangerous people going." Both men have a point...