Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...task. Says Jaime Chavez, an international banking consultant: "The people who will probably be searching for it have a very limited knowledge of what money movement is all about. How is a third-rate employee of the Justice Department going to dissect the entire financial system to pinpoint the drug money correctly?" During the Reagan years, the budgets of agencies in charge of ctaching financial cheats failed to keep pace with the changing world of money manipulation. Even IRS agents are largely unprepared for the task of tracking transactions that can involve four or five banks, several shell companies...
...What seems like minor blows to the head, minor incidents, give Lane at lot of problems," said Lowell MacDonald Sr., Lane's father. "He has seen several doctors and they have never really been able to pinpoint the problem...
What causes the jump in LDL? Stanford's Dr. Robert Superko suggests the answer may lie in the coffee beans. Regular coffee uses the milder arabica variety, while decaf brews rely on the stronger robusta beans. More research is needed to pinpoint which of the more than 500 ingredients in the beans might be responsible...
...also being rapidly developed. Researchers at Maryland's Johns Hopkins have made a pill slightly larger than a daily vitamin supplement that has a silicon thermometer and the electronics necessary to broadcast instant temperature readings to a recording device. By having a patient swallow the pill, doctors can pinpoint worrisome hot spots anywhere within the digestive tract. Future "smart pills" may transmit information about heart rates, stomach acidity or neural functions. Says Russell Eberhart, program manager at Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory: "This could change the way we diagnose and monitor patients...
Unlike hurricanes, which can be detected as they spawn and tracked until they expire, earthquakes give no timely warning. This one's subterranean birth pangs had persisted for decades, attended only by seismologists helplessly unable to pinpoint when calamity would strike. When its punch was finally delivered, it was measured at 6.9 on the Richter scale, a force not recorded in the U.S. since the 9.2 quake that shook Alaska...