Word: fingering
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...Like many Iraqis, al-Faidi blames the Americans - and especially CPA boss Paul Bremer - for Allawi's appointment. But many also finger Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations envoy who was charged with helping select the new government. Mahmoud Othman, a member of the Governing Council, was pulling no punches. "After weeks and weeks of talking with all sorts of Iraqis, he goes and picks somebody from the GC?" he said. "What was the point of this long, complicated exercise, all those long consultations? And what happened to his ideas about picking technocrats to run the new government?" Asked whether Allawi...
With gas prices at the pump now exceeding two dollars in most states, the finger pointing has begun on both sides of the aisle to determine who is responsible for oil supply problems. Unfortunately, supply is not the major cause of these price rises. Runaway economic growth in China and India is, and it has been for some time now as the two Asian giants continue to modernize their economies. Short of trying to derail economic growth in the world’s two most populous nations, there is very little the United States government can do to stop worldwide...
...testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, a few members of the audience shouted down the Secretary of Defense. He took it impassively. But then, he'd had recent experience with heckling, some of it from colleagues within the Administration. They engaged all week in thinly veiled finger pointing over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, and, in a rare move, the White House let it be known that the President had privately rebuked his Defense Secretary for not advising him of the extent of the problem. A senior Administration official said the relationship between the White House...
...champion equestrian and an A student. Her parents are doting, her friends devoted. So what's not to envy? Well, there's the small rectangular box attached to her belt that pumps insulin through a tube into her hip. To test her blood, she pricks her finger seven times a day. "It's scary," she says. "If your blood sugar goes too low, you could go into a coma." Sometimes at school her eyes swell, and she can't see the blackboard. She knows that her diabetes can result in kidney failure, amputation and blindness. But mostly, she says...
...down the street from the Piano Man's Long Island estate. Joel says he was on his way to pick up a pizza when his vintage 1967 Citroen skidded off the wet road, through some shrubbery and into the home. He suffered a minor cut on his left ring finger but refused medical attention. Police say the singer showed no signs of intoxication--he's just that bad a driver naturally--and didn't give him a sobriety test. The house's owner, Maria Dono, who was out shopping at the time of the accident, says she had never even...