Word: pinpoint
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...spring and summer digitally scanning 33 million pages--that is, every page from more than 120,000 in-print titles--and putting them in a vast searchable computer archive. Before on Amazon you could look only for names of books; now, to the chagrin of some authors, you can pinpoint a text reference on the very page where it appears and call it up in a jiffy. At a stroke, the world of wood pulp and the world of wired information just merged...
...gets my vote for “Most Equal Pop Song” of the year. It’s tricky to pinpoint exactly what it is that makes the song so catchy—the magic is hidden somewhere between the corny backbeat, those southern handclaps and Andre’s delirious vocal fills and grunts. “Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor” may be the best breakdown line yet created. Somewhere, James Brown’s hair is going kinky with jealousy. Even a snob can’t help but appreciate...
DIED. IVAN GETTING, 91, cold-war scientist who conceived the Global Positioning Satellite system, now used not just to deliver bombs precisely but also to enable civilians, like drivers, hikers and search crews, to pinpoint locations; in Coronado, Calif...
...Pinpoint hitting and crisp passing enabled Harvard to jump out to an early lead against Columbia (0-11, 0-2) and coast to a straight-game...
...charge that the Bush Administration leaked the identity of one of its intelligence operatives has such grave implications that it is impossible to pinpoint the single most disturbing. Is it that the White House may have intimidated a critic by endangering the life of a member of his family? Is it that, if the allegations are true, the administration jeopardized our national security by exposing a network of agents responsible for disrupting the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)? Or is that the White House is now trying to prevent a full and credible effort...