Word: pinpoints
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...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...
DIED. Edith H. Quimby, 91, biophysicist whose research helped to pinpoint the optimal dosage of radiation for various medical purposes, particularly its use in cancer therapy; in New York City. Part of the atom bomb-building Manhattan Project during World War II, she was nonetheless a Cassandra who warned about the dangers of radiation as early as the 1920s...
Some time in the 1960s-tough to pinpoint, but the impression is of the Green Bay Packers sweeping an end-it was said that pro football had replaced baseball as the national pastime, that baseball was yesterday, the radio era, and football was today, the television age. This shows how confused people were...