Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Some 20,000 stolen vehicles reach Mexico from the U.S. each year; fewer than 3,500 are returned. When U.S. diplomats raise the subject, the Mexicans reply that they keep only cars used by drug dealers and point out that the U.S. also confiscates vehicles used in smuggling. That is not quite good enough for San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter, who wants an outside inspection of every auto in Mexico's federal police motor pool...
...purchase). Yet the area's newspapers use only 130,000 tons of recycled material yearly. Since the entire Northeast has just one recycling plant, much of the waste paper is shipped abroad for re-use. Suffolk County legislator Maxine Postal, who sponsored the tougher bill, claims that its whole point is to entice paper companies to add de-inking facilities (cost: $40 million to $80 million each) or to build new recycling plants (at $450 million apiece...
...Yeltsin seems dedicated to all that is most welcome (if not most promising) in perestroika. Therefore he is a natural ally for Gorbachev. Even the disagreements between them constitute a tactical opportunity for Gorbachev. In dealing with his conservative constituencies in the military and the party apparatus, he can point to Yeltsin over his left shoulder and say, Do business with me or you may end up with that guy instead...
...attorney, with a billable rate of $220 an hour, dedicated to the system that rewards him. On the other hand, he has made his mark as an author by dramatizing the limits of legalisms. Both Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof weave and coil intricately around the same point: without the law, civilized life is impossible; with the law, civilized life is only nearly impossible...
...that point he was not really a writer anymore but a full-time lawyer. The eight years he spent as a deputy U.S. prosecutor included Operation Greylord, a widespread crackdown and sting operation that nabbed corrupt judges and other scoundrels in the Illinois legal system. Turow successfully prosecuted, among others, a state attorney general and a circuit-court judge...