Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story' than a true noche obscura. " The assessment is a bit melodramatic, yet her dark night is full of the sort of detail that Didion knows how to use so well: the beach towels at the San Salvador super market that are printed with maps of Manhattan that pinpoint Bloomingdale's; the local woman who gets out of a taxi in a provincial town and leaves behind the scent of Arpege; the dubbed television version of The Winning Team, starring Doris Day and Ronald Reagan, in which the now U.S. President exclaims in accented English, "Play ball...
...uncover a cure for cancer--a "magic bullet" which will home in on the cancerous tissue. Cancer, though, is not one disease but many. The wide variety of types of cancer suggests a whole gamut of causes. The philosophical reductionist approach which has characterized medical research--he effort to pinpoint a specific mechanism rather than to look at the whole body--has led to the unrealistic but seductive hope that the cure for cancer is "just around the corner...
...University deserves credit for responding to pressures to address these issues and for seizing the initiative by funding these two comprehensive and largely unprecedented studies. We encourage Harvard to support more efforts to pinpoint the concerns of women on campus and to take positive steps to meet these needs once they have been identified...
...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...