Word: fingered
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...Meech, a finger-like lake set in the evergreen-forested hills of Quebec's Gatineau Park, has long been a mecca for canoeists, campers, fishermen and skiers. But it was not the area's scenic beauty that last week drew Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and key members of his Progressive Conservative Cabinet to the government-owned retreat on the lake's snow-covered shore. Faced with Parliament's return from Christmas recess this week and with a host of problems awaiting action, Mulroney and his advisers had driven the half-hour north from Ottawa for an agonizing reappraisal...
...Linebacker Matt Millen dusted him off with a helmet, and Sullivan was restricted to the stands at Miami. In a sadder episode a couple of days later, young Wide Receiver Irving Fryar, 23, the leading punt returner in the N.F.L., showed up with a severed tendon in the little finger of his right hand. At first he described it as a kitchen accident, but Fryar's pregnant wife followed him in bruises to the emergency room, and the team has acknowledged a domestic fight...
...extremely costly for every policyholder, taxpayer and consumer. Every day brings word of new repercussions: doctors raising their fees, playgrounds closing, swimming meets being called off, transit systems facing financial jolts, fraternities having their coverage canceled, oil-field service companies closing down. Amid all of the attendant finger pointing, a serious search is under way for some solutions...
Plaintiffs' attorneys are every bit as willing to point the finger. Insurance companies, they charge, are using deceptive tales of excessive damage awards to justify the exorbitant premiums that they charge the public. Says Browne Greene, president-elect of the California Trial Lawyers Association: "Their greed takes us back to the robber barons of the 19th century." Many consumer organizations add that insurers are seeking unjustified premium hikes to cover up their own bad management and poor judgment of risks...
...discovery of the bodies was a wrenching twist for the families of the Challenger astronauts. It came as the finger pointing and recriminations inside NASA spilled into public view with harsh accusations by veteran astronauts that the space agency had repeatedly placed expediency over safety. Reeling, NASA administrators were forced to concede in congressional testimony that the shuttle program has been seriously set back, so much so that the entire space effort may require a thorough reorganization...