For example, though Colorado alleged that New Mexico could improve its administration of water supplies, it did not point to specific measures New Mexico could take to conserve water.
"It did not point to anything that has actually happened as a result of the release," Mr. Assange said.
The I.M.F. said that some recent economic information from Britain was "encouraging" but that it did not point to a sustainable recovery soon.
They realized that it did not point to the true north, and no one at that time knew of the magnetic pole, but they learned approximately how to correct the readings.
While the technology system that ultimately broke down is operated by Nasdaq, Mr. Greifeld said that it did not point to any larger flaw in the company's technology.
Frank Askin, a veteran civil rights trial lawyer and head of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers School of Law in Newark, said today that the testimony released Tuesday was troubling, but that, in the absence of an outright lie to the federal investigators, it did not point to an illegal act.
Only a handful of genetically targeted cancer drugs are widely available to patients today, but Borisy contends that Foundation's test will be useful even when it doesn't point to any of those medications.
Taking a break from rehearsal, police baton in hand, the 34-year-old said: "It doesn't point to anybody, but it brings to the fore the pain the tragic event cost.
"It doesn't point to anything about New Brunswick in particular other than the fact that, as in any other city, you have to be concerned about your safety," she said.
Even if people don't fully understand that, they sense that it doesn't point to something totally new.
