Word: pinpointing
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...carry back an image of what is reflected from the bladder wall. Using local and spinal anesthesia, the Cook County doctors have been able to see: the inflamed areas in cystitis; a tumor; an obstructed bladder neck; the encroachment of an enlarged prostate gland. Most important, they can pinpoint the exact location of a tumor or ulcer...
Starting Point. Whichever it was, it came just before the release of the massive, nine-volume NASA report on the fire, due for delivery early this week to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. By all accounts, the report does not pinpoint the exact cause of the fire and suggests that no absolutely precise blame will ever be fixed. But it does list two or three possible causes-all of them involving electrical malfunctions-and states that the trouble almost certainly started in or near one of the wiring bundles located to the left and just in front...
Griswold's decision only affirmed Harvard's adherence to state law. But more important, it recognized a much-discussed student grievance. Many students had thought the Law School would refuse to take up the matter. Specific cases of bias are, after all, difficult to pinpoint, and the director of the Law School Placement Office denied allegations that she told students not to apply to certain law firms...
...nearly three decades, the House Un-American Activities Committee has abused free speech in America with its clumsy attempts to pinpoint domestic subversion. Fortunately, in recent years HUAC has reared its ugly head only sporadically and has become a source of amusement for a good part of the nation...
...says Cousy. A dean's list student who is majoring in economics and plans to go on to law school, Evans was the star of B.C.'s 83-82 victory over the perennial Eastern power, Providence, two weeks ago; he set up 16 B.C. baskets with his pinpoint passes, twice stole the ball from Providence's All-America Guard Jimmy Walker, and dribbled the length of the floor to score himself...