Word: pinpoint
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...Such students wanted the University to give full disclosure of its overseas investments so that students and Faculty could scrutinize Harvard’s holdings and perhaps pinpoint other companies from whom the University should divest. We disagreed with their demands, as we believe that the Corporation’s decision to divest should give us some faith in their “new spirit of scrutiny” and that we should trust them to “police themselves...
When University of Oxford researchers presented volunteers with a vial of cheddar-cheese odor labeled either CHEDDAR CHEESE or BODY ODOR, guess which one they preferred? Sure enough, subjects found the odor significantly more pleasant when they thought they were smelling cheese. Researchers used imaging technology to try to pinpoint the neurological intersection of good-smell words with good-smell odors. Though the precise mechanism hasn't yet been worked out, it is clear that smell is in both the nose and the brain of the beholder...
...volcano's previous major convulsion. The similarities between the two events point up both the always present menace of an active volcano and its lethal unpredictability. Although scientists were convinced that Nevado del Ruiz was due for a major burst, they could not pinpoint the time with sufficient accuracy to allow large-scale evacuation of the surrounding towns...
...series of earthquakes were detected, followed by 30 minutes of harmonic tremor. Mild tremors continued throughout the spring and summer, and on Sept. 11, ash spewed forth for seven hours, accompanied by a roaring sound and electrical discharges. But for all these red flags, experts were unable to pinpoint when the big boom would come, or even if it would. Lacking that precision, Colombia, perhaps reluctant to disrupt the lives of residents with a false alarm, was unable to act in time. In a heavily populated area, says Gail Mahood, a geologist at Stanford University in California, "if you make...
...diabetics, Miles Laboratories makes the $150 Glucometer, which registers blood-sugar count. A diabetic applies a drop of blood to a 50 chemically treated strip, which is then fed into the machine. For couples hoping to have children, Tampax introduced in April a urine test that can pinpoint when a woman will be ovulating...