Word: fulcrum
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...Alfred Thomas, Loeb associate professor of the humanities, refers to Prague as a "fulcrum at the center of the European experience...
...Powell's military background certainly includes not only extensive experience promoting U.S. interests in such international contexts as NATO and the Gulf War alliance, but also a term as deputy national security adviser that put him at the fulcrum on U.S. diplomatic, military and economic concerns on the world stage...
This is the way David Boies, 59, conducts himself in the midst of the biggest case in a professional lifetime of huge cases, with the presidency teetering on the fulcrum of his arguments, with his back not to the wall but nearly through it. He acts as if he were waiting for tea to arrive. "Why should I worry?" he once asked his wife Mary, an accomplished lawyer, during another epic case several years ago. "Because I might lose? That's the worst thing that could happen...
Clinton sees the nation, west Africa's most powerful, as a fulcrum for democracy and capitalism he hopes will spread across the continent. "Your fight is America's fight and the world's fight," Clinton told the National Assembly in his keynote Saturday speech often punctured by applause. But the trip also seemed to act as a political tonic to a president in the twilight of a tenure marred by scandal: He was joyously serenaded by rapturous singers in a cavernous concrete Baptist church Sunday morning, and hailed by tribal chiefs and little children at a tiny village an hour...
...church itself above sin? That question forms the theological fulcrum of conflict within the Catholic Church over the mass of penitence to be delivered Sunday by Pope John Paul...