Word: pointed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
High-ranking U.S. officers in Saigon point out that main-force enemy units have been driven away from population centers. No major city in South Viet Nam has undergone an important attack this year. The strongest enemy divisions are now clustered along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. Local guerrillas and sappers still manage daily forays inland, but American officials argue that at the moment the enemy capacity for full-scale offensives appears drastically reduced...
...which has stood as a symbol of tax privilege since the Administration of Calvin Coolidge, was reduced to 23% in the Senate, a kinder cut than the House version, which put the allowance at 20%. The difference -which amounts to about $100 million in tax revenues for each percentage point-will be resolved in conference. But neither the House nor the Senate ventured to restrict the oilmen's privilege to deduct for depletion long after the costs of drilling have been recovered many times over...
...They weren't rude, they were just to the point," Richard J. Silveria, assistant manager of the club, said...
After Monday's meeting, OBU spokesmen expressed optimism about reaching agreement on the painters helper issue. They said however that construction workers had not been discussed, and that the main point of contention was the 20 per cent demand...
...effects of alcohol were greater than the known effects of marijuana. I have so far been unable to check his assertion about a long-lasting residue. I do not feel it is appropriate for me to comment here on whether I look like a heroin user, but I will point out that the method currently employed by the Mass. Red Cross to screen heroin users is not fool-proof: the potential donor need only...