Word: pinpointing
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...Hudnut retrieves a plastic box from under an oleander bush and pops the lid to reveal the small satellite receiver it shields from blowing sand. Nearby, a tripod-mounted antenna straddles a survey pipe like a spindly sentinel. Coded signals beamed down by orbiting ! satellites, Hudnut explains, serve to pinpoint the location of the pipe. The slightest shift in the pipe's position, and Hudnut will know the earth around it is on the move...
...dumbfounded by Ndokanda's photographic memory for terrain, it is soon his turn to be impressed. Using a compass and a battery-operated geopositioning system, we look for the two clearings. The system works by using signals sent from satellites and can pinpoint a position within 100 m. By taking a reading in the middle of a swamp near the camp (trees block the satellite signals), we are able to determine the way to the clearings...
With the many issue confronting the new dean, it may be difficult to know where to start. Buell himself isn't sure which issue she wants to pinpoint. He hopes, instead, to gain a full, "experiential" awareness of the administration, a knowledge base that "transcends what happens in this or that little area that happens to be the subject at the moment...
Remember all of those whiz-bang close-ups of smart bombs zeroing in on Iraqi targets during the gulf war? Satellite data helped pinpoint the targets. But the Navy complains that owing to shortcomings in communications, the Air Force was able to get most of the data -- as well as the glory -- while Navy personnel were stuck with a limited role because they could receive only a tiny fraction of the vital information. As part of a plan for a sweeping reorganization of U.S. intelligence, CIA Director Bob Gates now says he will fix the mess so that all services...
Councillor William H. Walsh, head of the committee, which was appointed last month, said the body will most likely hire a third party investigator. If necessary, the city will use lie detector tests to pinpoint the leaks, Walsh said...