Word: pinpointing
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...illustrate his explanation of his project in the Italian highlands, he pulled a full-color map out from a drawer to pinpoint particular locations. Togive a more concrete sense of what the smallItalian village he lived in looked like, he showedphotographs and postcards of the area, of hisfriends and the farmhouse in which he lived...
...victory, it is difficult to pinpoint a "turning point" for the winning team. But with 4:56 remaining in the second quarter, and the Crimson ahead only 4-0, Brown had its best scoring opportunity of the game...
...yellow school buses deposit scores of yellow-shirted fire fighters. Senior citizens in Enterprise, Ore., spend their mornings stuffing 1,800 beef and ham ^ sandwiches for the blaze busters' lunch. Sophisticated technology, made up of computers, radar, video cameras and satellite dishes -- dubbed the "mousetrap infrared system" -- helps pinpoint and track the fires...
Rogers desperately wanted to be able to pinpoint a cause of the Challenger explosion so the nation could move on in space. But he also knew that most investigations never arrive at firm conclusions. Events and the nature of the tragedy played his way, however, and it became apparent in the first few days that a mechanical failure might prove to be the fault. Yet something nagged in the back of the lawyer's mind. When he heard that the technicians had based their O.K. for the shuttle flight on the premise that "there were no conclusive data against...
Officials say they cannot pinpoint a cause for sexual harassment, but most admit it is more common than the few reported cases would suggest. Honnet attributes the problem at least in part to the dearth of tenured women and, by extension, strong female presence at Harvard, where fewer than 25 out of 350 senior professors are women...