Word: fulcrum
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...does not take a Putinologist to figure out the three basics of Russian strategy: court Western Europe, intimidate Eastern Europe, and split both off from the U.S. "Divide and conquer" is a classic of Russian policy, and the courtship always centers on Germany, the strategic fulcrum of the continent...
...involved in a lawsuit with her brother Henri (Mathieu Amalric, star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the lead villain in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace). She has effectively banished him from the family circle, which makes him the wild card - and plot fulcrum - when he turns up for the holidays...
...Owen Jelf, who heads the U.K. capital markets practice at consultancy Accenture. But nowhere other than New York boasts the combination of specially tailored office space and clustered expertise to challenge London's status. "I don't see how what is happening will upset London's position as the fulcrum of finance in Europe," says Marc Lhermitte, a partner at Ernst & Young in Paris who specializes in foreign-investment issues. And even in the worst-case scenario of continued market turbulence and a deep recession, the London economy has one crutch that won't be knocked down: huge government spending...
...Today, you won't find too many Icelanders moaning so publicly about their dark, isolated lot in life. But you will find the spots where Hlynur and his friends live out their days of beer, cigarettes and one-night stands. Chief among them is Kaffibarinn, the pub at the fulcrum of the movie's social world, which still challenges its guests to hone the skill of keeping a full pint from spilling in a swaying crowd. By day, twentysomethings sporting hoodies and complicated haircuts tap away on laptops next to pots of muddy coffee. At night, they reconvene - with beer...
...cultural disconnect between marijuana (the illegal drug) and pot (that stuff that lots of regular people consume) is the comic fulcrum of Pineapple Express, in which a process server (Seth Rogen) and his pot dealer (James Franco) earn the ire of risibly bloodthirsty marijuana kingpins. Their escape is hampered, of course, by the fact that they're stoned. It's a high action comedy. Literally...