Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...palatial home on Point Loma in San Diego, Savings and Loan King Kim Fletcher had gathered 150 real estate developers, oil contractors and other members of the local gentry to meet former Governor Ronald Reagan. For $200 each, the guests sipped drinks, munched on roast beef and chicken, and listened to the man who is universally considered to be the G.O.P.'s front-running candidate...
...state Republican convention when he said SALT II was "fatally flawed" and should be renegotiated. But he opposed SALT II, said Reagan, because it does not "fairly and genuinely reduce" the number of nuclear weapons, and he would support a treaty that would diminish "nuclear armaments to the point that neither country represents a threat to the other." Just three years ago, by contrast, Reagan had said that "peace does not come from weakness or retreat, it comes from restoration of American military superiority...
Then, said Smith, Purvis ran up and ordered: "Back away from that man. I want to talk to him."Pretty Boy glared and cursed. At which point, said Smith, Purvis turned to G-Man Herman Hollis and said: "Fire into him." Hollis obeyed, said Smith, killing Floyd with a burst from a tommy...
Moreover, fast industrialization and a vast influx of wealth may not bring stability and democracy in a developing country, as Americans have been inclined to believe, but may lead to instability and chaos. On this point, Kissinger candidly admits to lingering uncertainty about Iran: "In retrospect, it probably would have been wiser for us, in the period 1972-75, not to rely on the conviction that the rapid economic progress of Iran would produce greater stability of the Shah's government. It would have been wiser to recognize that in a society like that, economic development produces new classes...
...same multiplication problem baffles one-third of all 13-year-olds. Of course, young Americans may prosper without ever solving that particular problem, provided they never have to print up enough tickets to admit 671 people to exactly 402 rock concerts. But the problem makes a point for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a nonprofit organization, which included it, along with hundreds of others, in the latest N.A.E.P. survey of the nation's math skills, released last week. The point: as measured by tests given to a sampling of 71,000 U.S. students, math competence has declined...