Word: focal
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...letter to alumni from the Radcliffe College Fund for the Graduate Quadrangle, the Cronkhite Center was to be a place where "graduate students may obtain fitting and convenient living and eating facilities at reasonable cost, and find a focal center for their social life, a meeting place which will afford intellectual stimulation, and the cross-fertilization of ideas that has been the greatest strength of the great universities." The proposed expansion of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in the Cronkhite Graduate Center promises to have a dramatic negative impact on the lives of current and future graduate students...
Gershon is best known as the leader of the Either/Orchestra, a group that has become the bedrock of Boston jazz, and as the president and founder of Accurate Records, a label that has become a focal point in Boston music in general. Along the way, he has nabbed a Grammy nomination, released over 80 albums on his Accurate Records label, and toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe...
...numbers, however, were not on their side. Lubricating the entire fault would require enormous amounts of drilling, flooding and pumping. And since no one knew where the quake might originate, the job would have to be done along a broad stretch of the fault line. They needed a focal point...
...exactly lovely," she said. "It makes you sort of a focal point...
...recently remodeled Axis space was arranged to privilege the DJ; he stood at the center of a row of equipment at the focal point of the new, terraced dance floor...