Word: fingers
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With a broad range of affirmative-action programs-some of them in place for more than three decades-under fierce attack by the Republicans, President Clinton put his finger to the wind and ordered "an intense, urgent" review to determine which ones work and which ones could be abandoned. One G.O.P. presidential candidate, Phil Gramm, has vowed to end certain major set-aside programs on-he hopes-his first day in office...
...Unfortunately, there has been a lot of finger-pointing by people who have been there for a long time, but who refuse to take any responsibility," she said...
...your) bank, or knowing the corner shopkeeper well enough to cash a personal check. The ATM changed all that, using a fusion of computer chips, telepad, phone line and dispensing mechanism to transform the way people access their money. Armed with only a plastic card and a functioning index finger, a customer can now obtain cash as easily in Tierra del Fuego as in downtown Tulsa...
...investor interests," says consumer activist Ralph Nader. It was Sporkin at his most sulfurous who dismissed the 1990 suit by which Charles Keating tried to regain control of Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose collapse cost taxpayers $2 billion. Bluntly accusing Keating of "looting" Lincoln funds, Sporkin also pointed the finger at the lawyers and accountants who had made it possible...
...with a capital G. We've waifed good-bye to those bird-boned, droopy-dressed, grunge girls. Good riddance! We've witnessed the fall of the ubiquitous slip dress, unshackled ourselves from those nasty crocheted chokers and beckoned a whole new era with a wiggle of our collective manicured finger. Polished, of course, with Vamp by Chanel, currently selling like it's going out of style. Maybe because...