Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other family members have similar difficulties? The doctor will also inquire closely into the patient's general health, past illnesses, work and leisure activities, even sexual habits. Orthopedic Surgeon J. William Fielding of New York City's St. Luke's Hospital says that he can usually pinpoint the patient's problem from this ritual alone. He also points out that the pattern of pain is itself a diagnostic tool. Reason: the nerve pathways branching off different areas of the spinal cord have been so well mapped that any pain along them can be used to point...
...Crimson strafed the Yale zone defense with pinpoint passing, and left the first half with a 7-2 lead. Harvard maintained the offensive as the second half began, with senior co-captain Julie Cornman blasting in two goals, her second and third of the game. Freshman attack Francesca Den Hartog also invaded the Eli net three times to add another hat trick to her coup stick...
Crimson: Given the opportunity that Carter had on the eve of the presidency, as you paint it in your book, what specific qualities in him would you be able to pinpoint that led to his troubles, or what qualities would have worked better in someone else...
...terrorists pick Walter Grant, a brilliant, disgruntled mercenary who has been dismissed from the Special Air Service for torturing an Irish prisoner. Samson seems impregnable, but Grant knows otherwise. Captain Jonathon Stagg, Grant's sometime S.A.S. subordinate, sniffs something rotten in the North Sea wind but cannot pinpoint the terrorists' targetor persuade the mandarins of Whitehall that a catastrophe is gathering offshore. The battle of Samson (Stagg suggests that it be code-named Delilah) winds up as a duel of wits and weaponry between...
DIED. Sheldon Glueck, 83, Polish-born Harvard law professor and criminologist; in Cambridge, Mass. Glueck and his wife Eleanor, who also taught at Harvard, developed "social prediction tables" for determining the delinquency potential of youths. They used 40 factors-including maternal affection, family cohesiveness, even body type-to pinpoint future troublemakers as early as age six. Though the technique was criticized because it could be used to prejudge young people, tests showed it to be highly reliable...