Word: pinpoint
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...hard to pinpoint exactly where this gleam comes from. Frontman Halstead’s vocals are as whisperingly fragile as on his recent solo album, Sleeping on Roads. The instrumentation is a sort of chamber country affair, with pedal steel and keyboards filling out the central piano and guitar. The key may be the inspired use of space—the music never builds to more than a jaunty bounce (as on “Billy Oddity”). A plangent line like “It’s hard to miss you,” sung repeatedly over...
Moran closed out the scoring in the 68th minute, breaking by her defender to head in a pinpoint cross from senior striker Alisa Sato...
...battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." Still, there is no good option on North Korea. The U.S. military predicts that 1 million people could be killed in the first month of a war, most of them South Korean civilians. Pinpoint strikes on the North's nuclear facilities are difficult to envision, since some of the known facilities are in hardened installations buried deep inside the mountains, while North Korea's clandestine nuclear program suggests it may have facilities of which the U.S. is currently unaware. Pinpoint strikes require pinpoint intelligence...
...limit. Allowing CIA, State Department and Pentagon authorities to wager their own money on a terrorist strike would quickly aggregate their wisdom and perhaps provide leads. Meanwhile, there's collateral damage. Sources tell TIME that a prototype market for health officials to wager on a SARS outbreak--to help pinpoint hot spots--lost funding in the process. --By Daniel Kadlec
...Kelly's death has heightened public suspicions, putting a poignant human face on the idea that the government "sexed up" its dossier on WMD, and suggesting moreover that it contributed to his death by sacrificing his bureaucratic anonymity. Defense Ministry officials, with an assist from Downing Street, helped reporters pinpoint his name. They knew this would inevitably lead to his testifying about what he told BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, who based his provocative charge that Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications chief, had "sexed up" the dossier at least in part on what Kelly had said. Hoon first said...