Word: pinpointing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University Committee on Governance today issued an interim report designed to pinpoint several general problems confronting the University...
...draft. The pros are also high on Archie Manning of Ole Miss, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs. A scrambler in the mold of the New York Giants' Fran Tarkenton, Manning can pick out a receiver in a crowd of defenders and hit him with a pinpoint pass. He has the height to see over mountainous linemen and the speed (10.2 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) to turn the ends for long gainers. Beyond that, he possesses that rare quality that marks all great quarterbacks: the instinct to call the right play at the right time...
...must rethink their goals every three years or automatically go out of business. Though timid undergraduates may still take old-fashioned teaching-methods courses, the adventuresome are free to gather credits where they may. In the "humanistic education" center, for example, students and professors join modified encounter groups to pinpoint the elusive emotional problems that may baffle them and the children they will teach. A doctoral student recently got credit for one self-designed unit of "watching Dwight Allen." Students also practice-teach while living full time in Philadelphia and other cities far from the ed school's Amherst...
...moonlighted nights and weekends, making the hair straightener in a rented place. Then he hustled as a one-man sales force through the city's black barbershops, and soon his swings took him to Indianapolis, Detroit and beyond. Working the black ghettos, he never needed research to pinpoint his sales area. "I knew how to find it," Johnson says wryly. "Go to any strange town and just follow the railroad tracks...
...those who fear that Special Concentrations will act as a concession and thus thwart any effort to overhaul Harvard according to some general plan-if Harvard does in fact need an overhaul-the inadequacies which the program will pinpoint will help determine what fundamental changes are needed. On the other hand, if the curriculum is actually healthy and does not need major alterations, then Special Concentrations will result in no more than the quiet accommodation of a few unconventional interests...