Word: pinpoint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really drawn to the... political, personal, and social message that she sometimes can pinpoint really well," added Lee Newberg, an Arlington resident...
...sexual preference? "Absolutely not," declares molecular biologist Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute, who headed both the 1993 investigation and the new one. "From twin studies, we already know that half or more of the variability in sexual orientation is not inherited. Our studies try to pinpoint the genetic factors, not to negate the psychosocial factors...
...youth; his attempt last summer to initiate a modest on-the-job-training program for inner-city youths died in the local Chamber of Commerce. He feels scorn for blacks who flee poverty only to forget those they left behind. "[Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas talks about being from Pinpoint, a really rundown area of Savannah, but to my knowledge he has never been back," says Marshall. "Why doesn't he come back and help make things better...
...after checking into a drug rehabilitation clinic in Northern California. "He was a 53-year-old man with hardening of the arteries," Marin County coroner's investigator Gary Erickson said. "This was a mechanical process." (Two of three arteries leading from Garcia's heart had been reduced to "a pinpoint.") Heroin or no heroin, music critic Christopher John Farley says: "I'm surprised and kind of bothered that there wasn't more honest talk about the addictions that Garcia faced in his life...
...LELA ROCHON, who are all, for reasons mostly involving men, holding their breath. How did an actor macho enough to play a bomb expert in a bomb like Blown Away fare directing such a project? "It was intense," says Whitaker. "I have new insights into women. I can't pinpoint what they are, but I'd recognize them in real life...