Word: finger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate on Larry King's interview show. Hardly anyone noticed, and the idea seemed dead. But then Clinton went on what amounted to a campaign swing for NAFTA; after he had finished a speech to factory workers in Lexington, Kentucky, last Thursday, the President, in his best jaw-jutting, finger-pointing style, issued a dare: he recalled Gore's challenge and said, "Let's see if he ((Perot)) takes...
...shadowy Garrison, who is constantly at Cedras' side, has flown in Kevin Kattke, a former Macy's department-store maintenance engineer who has had his finger in more than one American intelligence pie. In 1983 Kattke helped Oliver North prepare the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. He was also on hand in Haiti in 1986 when Baby Doc Duvalier was ousted. (Raymond Burghardt, who oversaw Latin American affairs for the National Security Council at the time, credits Kattke with "knowing that Baby Doc would be toppled before the U.S. embassy...
...television industry didn't do something to curb violence in its programs by year's end, she said, government regulation would be "imperative." Some media executives suggested that the Attorney General might be on shaky constitutional ground with her attack. But many nonetheless felt compelled to point the finger at their competitors. And in Hollywood the company behind The Program, Disney's Touchstone Pictures division, announced that it was shipping new prints of The Program without the offending scene...
...guessed C), congratulations! You've got your finger on the pulse of the Harvard student body. That's right--in the past few years electronic mail, known to the initiated as e-mail, has undergone a transformation in campus culture. Once a badge of geek-hood, a communication system for computer studs across the world, it has become more popular than almost any other activity--including, for many, studying. Its devotees include everyone from hard-core hackers to the computer-illiterate masses...
...this scene. Unfortunately, this act also includes Carla Stalling's failure as the Queen to both act and dance, and the repetition of odd, graceless flittery arm choreography by the court fairies. By the end of act one, the youthful and energetic sixteen year old Aurora has pricked her finger on Casabosse's poisoned spindle in a beautiful pastoral garden scene while dancing with four foreign princes. The Lilac Fairy saves her by putting a spell on the castle and everyone within its walls falls into a deep sleep...