Word: pinning
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...four isolated pockets of Ansar on very high ground. We're closing in on them from everywhere we can," says an American commando named Mark, who declines to give his rank or surname. The fire coming down from the craggy peak is torrid. Machineguns rattle from above. Ansar snipers pin down troops, their rounds pinging off rocks and buzzing past heads. In return, Kurdish artillery fires in from the flat plains about 2 miles below. Thick whistles sound uncomfortably overhead as a shell passes the Americans' position. It thwacks into the mountainside. "If we can get the blocking force...
...Americans in recent years have made it clear we don't want to elect politicians who are smarter than we are. Rather than pin our national hopes to politicians at ease with nuance, most of us seem to crave average thinkers with average ideas. And that's a shame, because all of us should feel encouraged and comforted, rather than threatened, by the presence of great thinkers in Washington. As Moynihan proved over the course of nearly forty years in government, great minds are well-used in the messy and essential arena of public service...
...Doctors outside China were scrambling last week to pin down how the pathogen is transmitted?critical in stopping the disease from spreading further. After painstakingly tracing patients' histories, scientists have deduced that the disease is probably spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, such as phlegm. Here again, cooperation from Chinese authorities might have helped. As long ago as Jan. 21, an official internal advisory?issued to doctors in Guangdong and later obtained by Time?laid out how the disease appears to be transmitted. "Given that the explosion of the epidemic was mainly in the same area and some patients...
...Laden in December somewhere in the desolate stretches of western Baluchistan, a wasteland inhabited mainly by armed smugglers. But the Pakistanis aren't sure how much credence to give the tale. "We've got some good leads from Mohammed," says a senior Pakistani intelligence officer, "but we can't pin Osama down to one place...
...decided that that wireless should be seamless; everyone should be able to authenticate in the same way,” Steen says. “Our wireless is available to everyone at Harvard with an ID and PIN...