Word: pinpoint
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...enable the schools in the study to better pinpoint their specific problem areas and to compare their ratings with similar institutions, Change, with the help of a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is sending them their scores for each of 16 indicators as well as their overall rating...
...complicated, atonal and difficult, if not impossible, to sing. There was no way to participate in it as there was in rock. You could dance to rock, but not to the jazz of that period; jazz did evoke a certain feeling, but it was hard to pinpoint it in those dense sound clusters and complex rhythms. And so people walked away with a feeling, but not with a remembrance. They had nothing to touch...
...foot and shoot a panoramic view of its surroundings. An hour after landing, the first historic picture from the surface of Mars should be completed on J.P.L. monitors. It will be followed a half-hour later by the panoramic view, which if nothing else should help scientists to pinpoint the location of Viking, far too small to be seen by the orbiting mother ship...
...continued to spread. The FBI, TIME discovered last week, had landed a current version of Watergate's Deep Throat. This anonymous source, who might be tagged Jack the Tipper, has taken to calling the FBI three to four times a day. In tones of outrage, Jack has demonstrated pinpoint knowledge about some of Capitol Hill's darker corners. Investigators believe that he may be a member of Congress or a legislative aide. "Whoever he is," says one official involved in the inquiry, "he's delivering the goods...
...here." He added: "The Syrian military efforts are getting very close to the borderline" of Israeli tolerance. In Jerusalem, Premier Yitzhak Rabin had a different borderline in mind. He warned that Israel had marked out a "red line" beyond which Syrian forces could not move. Although Rabin refused to pinpoint the line, military observers judged it to be the Litani River, running south and west through southern Lebanon. "If they bring in flak and missiles and get close to the Israeli border," said a Western diplomat in Beirut, "the Israelis will likely do something about it." Agreed another...