Word: pointedness
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Stubbs' men know these teahouses well; they have engaged the enemy on this street and have captured some of its commanders here. But on this evening a couple of nights before Thanksgiving, most of the teahouses are inexplicably shuttered. Here and there, faces press against the windows or peer out...
But the times may be changing. After a bruising annual-meeting season during which CalPERS wielded its $166 billion portfolio like a bludgeon, members of its board gathered in Lake Tahoe, Nev., in July to take stock. One invited speaker, Richard Koppes, a former CalPERS general counsel, delivered a blunt...
He recalled a time in the sixth grade when a classmate pointed to the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa and asked if they had ever fit together. The teacher said that was not the case.
He pointed out that the College had established the Harvard Green Fund, which lends money at zero interest to any school interested in improving its energy efficiency.
On the other hand, Whitehead pointed to blueline failure when describing the first Crimson goal, a Jon Pelle score that found the back of the net after several stabbing rebounds.