1.   Because Johnson, under FBI tutelage, sought to provoke responses from GE personnel by making pointed remarks, a company lawyer said the investigation verged on entrapment.

2.   He has chosen some of these venues to deliver pointed remarks.

3.   In an ironic twist, Republican leaders cautioned the Memphis Democrat that his pointed remarks violated House rules against direct personal criticism of the president.

4.   In one particularly pointed remark, Clinton warned Saddam Hussein of dire consequences if the standoff over weapons inspections continued.

5.   In pointed remarks aimed at the Legislature, Graves said lawmakers should get serious about balancing the budget.

6.   Instead, the Cowboys will now spend this week deflecting pointed remarks aimed at their own heads and hearts, and for good reason.

7.   On successive nights, Duquette made pointed remarks about the decision, the second night saying that deep down, Martinez wanted to remain in the game.

8.   The pointed remarks brought the moral pressure of the Roman Catholic Church to bear as Bush weighs whether to allow government funding for embryonic stem cell research.

9.   The question now is whether a pointed remark made so late in the debate comes just too late.

10.   Yet their all-American veneer skews disquietingly when they test Faraday with pointed remarks about nobody in government assuming responsibility.