Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Finger pointing and recriminations abound. Were the consequences of bringing an unenforceable indictment against a foreign leader seriously considered? Or the political embarrassment of plea bargaining with a thug? Why did Washington act before properly assessing Noriega's strength with the Panama Defense Forces (PDF) he commands? And why conduct a policy that was at once too public and too timid...
...clubby and litigious world of medicine, doctors have been reluctant to finger incompetent colleagues. A high-court decision last week is likely to make them even shyer. The case, closely tracked by the medical community, involved Surgeon Timothy Patrick. In 1981 a peer-review panel was considering ending his privileges at the only hospital in Astoria, Ore., on the grounds of substandard patient care. Patrick resigned and sued the doctors in a rival practice, who had initiated and participated in the proceedings against him. His claim: conspiracy to eliminate a competitor. Though the law partly protects physicians who serve...
...tense on all sides. The church hierarchy, charging that its mediation offer had been betrayed, bitterly denounced the use of force as a step that "does not serve the interests of society." Walesa grew more and more disillusioned. "It's as if the authorities are trying to poke their finger into the wheel of history," he declared. "Really, I am beyond fear at this point. They can kill me, but they can't overcome me." The electrician, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983, vowed that "I will be the last to leave" the shipyard...
Look once at the photographs of Garry Winogrand and you might think the man was all thumbs. But look twice: he had his finger on something special. This ; week, four years after his death at 56, Winogrand is being honored by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art with a retrospective that is more a coronation than a memorial. The kingmaker is John Szarkowski, MOMA's vastly influential photography curator, who has spent two decades praising and unpuzzling Winogrand's headlong pictures. For the final section of this 190- print summation of Winogrand's career, Szarkowski even had developed more than...
...report has angered many educators, who resent Bennett's emphasis on the negative, his slighting of the achievements of the past five years, and his finger pointing. "Sarcastic, belittling, patronizing," declared John Brademas, president of New York University and formerly a leading education advocate in Congress. California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig notes that the number of students scoring above 450 in math and 500 in verbal on SATs has jumped 18% since 1983. "If this was the steel industry and we had an 18% gain in productivity, it would make headlines," says Honig. The downbeat report, he adds...