Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think any parent could love their children any more than I do, and I would never even think about doing anything that would harm them. It's very painful to have the finger pointed at you when it's your children involved...
...finger-pointing and raft of rumors that have plagued Russian President Boris Yeltsin's government since "Black Tuesday," theOct. 11 ruble crash, intensified today as two top ministers left office. Yeltsin fired a senior Russian defense official, received the resignation of a leading economic reform advocate and appointed his third finance minister in four weeks. Preceding today's hat trick by three days, the Russian leader dismissed his first deputy defense minister, a general accused of corruption. The government said little about the impact of the tumult on continued economic reform, but the official who resigned today -- economics minister Alexander...
...soon as my hand touched the cool metal, I drew back. I realized, with fear and horror, what I had done. Without anyone's permission, I had left the blemish of my finger-print on the car of a great and powerful man. I stood next to the car for half a minute frozen, waiting for the Secret Service agents to apprehend...
Agassiz Professor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin '50-'51 and Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl object to the forensic use of DNA finger-printing, or profiling. They contend that the accuracy claimed by current statistical techniques is overstated...
Shortly after we walked into the Career Forum at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center, a short man in a grubby raincoat approached us. "Looking for a career?" he whispered, opening up his cost to display dozens of embossed business cards clipped to the frayed lining. A pale finger beckoned us to follow...