Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he wasn't burning the Harvard secondary with pinpoint passing, Polsinello sent halfback Sean Maher through the line 28 times for 118 yards. "Maher didn't practice much this week," Yukica said, "and I didn't know he'd be able to hold up that well...
Another advertising option is direct mail, which enables the sender to pinpoint his audience. Islip, N.Y., Lawyers William Harrison and Alfred Koffler were dissatisfied with their newspaper-ad campaign offering house closings for $235, so they reduced their rate another $40 and sent out letters to 7,500 homeowners. The result: 200 clients and disciplinary proceedings by the local bar association. While New York State's highest court backed the pair and ruled that direct mail was allowed, 38 states still prohibit...
...pregnancy, when the fetus weighs about 10 oz. and is about 10 in. long. A series of pictures taken during the earlier ultrasound scanning helped locate the abnormal twin, though not with certainty; Kerenyi put his chances at "much better than 50-50." Doctors then used sound waves to pinpoint the tiny beating heart. On their second attempt, they pierced the heart with a thin needle and withdrew about half the fetus' blood, causing the heart gradually to stop beating. Analysis of the blood later confirmed that the correct twin had been aborted...
...Israeli reaction was, naturally enough, pride in their military accomplishment. But there was not the same spontaneous celebration in the streets, for example, that greeted the July 1976 pinpoint Israeli commando raid on Uganda's Entebbe airfield. One reason was that as international criticism started to pour in, many Israelis sensed an impending isolation. Said Eli Ben-Hamo, 26, a Jerusalem café owner: "It was necessary. It had to be done. But I'm worried. We're doing it to ourselves. For years the world didn't much like us. Nowadays we're giving them reason...
...reasons for the upheaval in personal finance are not hard to pinpoint: double-digit inflation and high taxes. There are almost no savings instruments that pay interest high enough to offset their ill effects. "When inflation gets into double digits, you have to do something or else lose the race," says George Sullivan, an IBM executive in Denver, who has switched most of his cash from a bank to a money-market fund. Assuming 10% inflation, someone in the 50% tax bracket would now have to get 20% interest on his savings just to break even...