Word: pinpointing
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...losing was a new experience Looking back. I really can't pinpoint what happened. We had so much talent, won our first three games, were ranked third in the country, and then we fell apart. No one was used to losing and we really didn't know how to react...
...ceremony, although emotionally charged, was held without incident, but Miami knew that it could not afford to relax. Eight investigations were under way to pinpoint the causes of the disorder and assess the performance of the Miami police against the rock-throwing, car-trashing and window-smashing mobs. Some of the probes focused on Policeman Luis Alvarez, who shot Johnson in the head at short range after, police claimed, the victim had made a "sudden move." Johnson had a handgun under his shirt...
...faculties in Australia that maintained watch over the Soviet Union, and especially its missile testing. The most important of these installations, by far, is at Pine Gap, a desolate sprawling base in central Australia, twelve miles from fabled Alice Springs, that employs some 250 Americans. The supersecret station helps pinpoint potential Soviet military targets and collects information from U.S. spy satellites orbiting overhead...
...crucial need, a bargaining chip, or a weapon the Soviets will regard as a first-strike threat, in which case it will invite rather than deter attack-are all expected to be exploited by MX critics on Capitol Hill. With deficits soaring and budget cuts painful to pinpoint, the MX is a tempting target for legislators who read last month's elections as a mandate for defense cuts. The potentially bitter debate also follows recent victories at the polls by the nation's grass-roots nuclear-freeze movement, and the raising of moral questions about nuclear weapons...
...into which genes are packaged, have begun to associate specific abnormalities-an extra chromosome, a missing piece of a chromosome-with specific types of cancer. Virologists have clarified the role that viruses can play in altering DNA. And molecular biologists have used the new tools of genetic engineering to pinpoint precisely which gene, out of the tens of thousands present in every human cell, is responsible for causing a tumor...