Word: pointer
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...Francis made three free throws to push its lead to five with just 26 seconds remaining. Crimson junior guard Kevin Rogus drained a huge three-pointer to close the gap to two, but two more free-throws by X-Men guard Zach Russell with seven seconds remaining put the game out of reach...
...some advertisers felt last year when they bought traditional dramas and sitcoms and, come winter, saw them replaced by the likes of Are You Hot? Despite hits like Joe Millionaire, reality shows' ratings are unpredictable, and not everyone wants their snack chips associated with Lorenzo Lamas' laser pointer...
...those shoe-box-shaped structures are enemy barracks and that dark broken line is a convoy of armored vehicles closing in on Baghdad from the south. Now move even closer: an empty airport runway, a damaged tank and there, along the bottom, where the general is tapping his pointer--a human body? The orbiting camera has reached its limits, but the mind continues to zoom in until it's looking the dead man in the eye. The big picture no longer matters, just this small one--singular, piercing...
Tubridy nailed a jumper and grabbed two tough rebounds, the second of which led to an Ides three that brought the score to 67-58 with just over four minutes left. The captain demonstrated further poise under pressure, hitting another three-pointer at 3:29, cutting the Wildcats’ lead to eight at 69-61 and capping an Harvard...
...force. But maximum force also greatly increases the risks of civilian casualties, particularly since Saddam has deployed so many of his key military resources in civilian population centers. Most of the ordinance dropped by U.S. planes these days is guided with precision to its targets by satellite or laser-pointer, but precision bombing require precision intelligence - the U.S. bomb that destroyed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1998 was guided by satellite with deadly accuracy; the problem lay in the intelligence that had wrongly identified the building. And the inability of U.S. and British intelligence tips to guide UN weapons...