41.   More ominously, the economics minister for the state of Hesse, who regulates the Frankfurt exchange, is raising pointed questions as well.

42.   No one asked any pointed questions.

43.   Never one to shy away from a pointed question, Hoch said he had complained to the commissioner, Tim Finchem, on several occasions.

44.   On the bus, he gets some pointed questions from reporters about his prospects.

45.   One morning Anderson arrived at work and a TV reporter ambushed her with pointed questions about the hijackers.

46.   Owens keeps his cool, patiently asking her more pointed questions over the next few minutes.

47.   Pointed questions are bound to continue, of course.

48.   Pointed questions to Alex Yemenidjian, the Tracinda spokesman, seemed to suffer an unusual amount of technical interference.

49.   Rather than ask pointed questions, they preferred to lay out statements, a technique that works only if the statement is provocative.

50.   Republicans threw few pointed questions at Summers.