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Word: pinpointed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know whether to be reflexive or cognitive. Suppose a child gets into a compromising situation where it has lost the reflex and has not acquired the learned behavior that has to come in to supplant the lost reflex." Lipsitt hopes to devise a specific test that will pinpoint those few children who may be in jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Babies Know? | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...year is far slower than that of a monkey or even an elephant, it is nonetheless so dramatic-from lying flat on its back to the first creeping across the floor to the first faltering steps around the corner of the kitchen table-that scientists persist in trying to pinpoint when and how it learns each new accomplishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Babies Know? | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...second stanza saw the spikes forging ahead, 5-1, thanks to another Ross ace and pinpoint setting from the Martin tandem Princeton out the deficit to one, 5-4, through Norman and Julian Herencia's short spikes...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabet, | Title: Spikers Nab First Ivy Championship, Down Princeton in Final, 15-9, 15-8 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

Both men also concur that these qualities have a lot to do with Martin's position on the floor. As a setter he can't afford to falter since he is the focal point of the team's attack. Martin's reliability and equanimity result in pinpoint setting for his teammates salvos...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabet, | Title: Brad Martin | 4/27/1983 | See Source »

While the computer cannot readily pinpoint personnel weaknesses, it does evaluate team strengths upon which most of the defense is formulated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Tech Hits the Football Field | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

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