Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to pinpoint a legacy. Certainly, a few members of Lionel broke away from the group. While 10 members went to Dunster House and three to Currier, several left all Lionel people and took off for other Houses with other roommates. But even those who did so did not necessarily leave Lionel behind. Rich, who left his Lionel roommates and went to Leverett House recalls that he "regretted it partly sophomore year. You really got close to people freshman year...
...problem. Davila says, is the decentralized nature of the University. Verba can pinpoint problems and make suggestions on how to improve teaching, but he really just cannot tell departments or professors how to run their courses. "If individual professors don't want to listen they don't have to," she says, adding. "We see a lot of improvement, but every year we seem to talk about the quality of sections. Yes, you do all the studies but you don't have much impact--I don't really feel that section leader quality has improved that much...
Senator Edward Kennedy called the Administration's record on issues affecting civil rights, women and the poor "a disgrace" and charged that Meese was "a key architect" of these policies. Kennedy tried to pinpoint Meese's role in the controversial 1982 Justice Department decision to reverse more than a decade of federal antidiscrimination policy and permit Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., to gain tax-exempt status, although the private school had a policy of racial segregation. In the outcry after the turnabout, Reagan claimed unpersuasively that he had merely wanted to make certain that the Internal Revenue...
Behind the mighty vocal support of some 300 of its own fans, the Big Red increased its lead to nine with just 5:57 left, thanks in part to the pinpoint shooting of freshman guard John Bajusz and thanks in lot to a few more Harvard errors...
...tiny camera attached to his body showed how he steered by precise, split-second movements of his head and feet. The much ballyhooed computer graphics, however, added little to a viewer's understanding. At the opening ceremonies, for example, ABC hurtled graphics maps across the screen to pinpoint where lesser-known countries are situated, but the globes were so minute that it was hard to discern even continents. Some of the prepackaged features, put together in the name of world brotherhood, were embarrassing: John Denver crooned a mawkish ballad at a mass grave for 11,000 victims...