Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pinpoint Lance Morrow's age, but his Essay does seem to be a case of one generation speaking to another. I am a product of the "new lingo" generation, and I admit I often find myself flinching inside while maintaining a deadpan expression. However, what really catches me off guard is when someone older than I tosses around what are considered vulgar words and expressions in my presence. I have been running into this in job interviews recently...
Brooks once said his team played "sophisticated pond hockey." Whatever its name, the style of the Americans is oddly schizophrenic. They ride players into the boards and forecheck -an oafish game. On offense, on the other hand, they strive -when they can remember their orders-to practice pinpoint passing. The weakness of this hybrid approach showed up in a big game against the Czechs. With a one-man advantage after a Czech penalty, the Americans got too clever by half: they fecklessly passed the puck back and forth for 1 min. 40 sec., until time ran out. All the while...
...engineering defect probably caused the accident, but the actual cause is hard to pinpoint, Leary said...
Keeping oil prices unrealistically low is an unsatisfactory way to aid the poor. The rich use more energy in absolute terms than the poor, and, in relative terms, they consume almost as much when one counts indirect uses of energy, such as airplane travel. It is better to pinpoint aid directly to the poor. In fact, unrealistically low energy prices hurt all consumer because, over the long run, they cause the price of energy to be even higher than it would otherwise be. As an explicit example, the price controls on oil since the 1973 "OPEC Revolution...