Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yellow school buses deposit scores of yellow-shirted fire fighters. Senior citizens in Enterprise, Ore., spend their mornings stuffing 1,800 beef and ham ^ sandwiches for the blaze busters' lunch. Sophisticated technology, made up of computers, radar, video cameras and satellite dishes -- dubbed the "mousetrap infrared system" -- helps pinpoint and track the fires...
Rogers desperately wanted to be able to pinpoint a cause of the Challenger explosion so the nation could move on in space. But he also knew that most investigations never arrive at firm conclusions. Events and the nature of the tragedy played his way, however, and it became apparent in the first few days that a mechanical failure might prove to be the fault. Yet something nagged in the back of the lawyer's mind. When he heard that the technicians had based their O.K. for the shuttle flight on the premise that "there were no conclusive data against...
Officials say they cannot pinpoint a cause for sexual harassment, but most admit it is more common than the few reported cases would suggest. Honnet attributes the problem at least in part to the dearth of tenured women and, by extension, strong female presence at Harvard, where fewer than 25 out of 350 senior professors are women...
...coal-black night in March, the kind astronomers like best. At Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, Princeton Astrophysicist Edwin Turner pointed the 158-in. reflecting telescope first at one distant pinpoint of light in the sky, then at a neighboring one. A few hours later, studying the results of his night's labors, Turner could hardly believe his eyes. "It was a big surprise," he says. "But a big surprise is always a clue you might be on the track of something...
VERY RARELY CAN a person recall the exact moment of the life-shattering mistake which ruined his or her life, and even more rarely can he or she pinpoint the exact moment when the reality of that mistake came crashing home. I can do both...