Word: lifeblood
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Such stopgaps are needed because the aging transmission lines that link U.S. regions make it difficult to move power swiftly to where it is needed. "If energy is the lifeblood [of the economy], transmission is the arteries and the veins," says Thomas Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, which represents major power companies. But "congestion on the system has increased a tremendous amount," Kuhn notes, because the U.S. hasn't expanded its 2,000-mile grid of high-voltage lines in more than a decade...
...Such stopgaps are needed because the aging transmission lines that link U.S. regions make it difficult to move power swiftly to where it is needed. "If energy is the lifeblood [of the economy], transmission is the arteries and the veins," says Thomas Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, which represents major power companies. But "congestion on the system has increased a tremendous amount," Kuhn notes, because the U.S. hasn't expanded its 2,000-mile grid of high-voltage lines in more than a decade...
...indictment addresses the lifeblood of a uniquely corrupt regime. By shedding light on the Byzantine sources of support for a government whose workings have long remained mysterious to the outside world, it may help the country unravel responsibility for the crimes of the past decade, not only in Serbia but everywhere the wars of the former Yugoslavia were fought...
AIDS is also spreading into China's lifeblood through the country's vast, migrant population. Beijing economists estimate that more than 200 million rural laborers are drifting into the cities looking for jobs that simply aren't there. Little Jade worked as a waitress until she was fired for breaking too many dishes, and she couldn't find any other work in Kunming. With state-run factories closing down, young migrant women find prostitution their only option, especially in China's coastal boomtowns...
...what it's worth, Section 11 is also the lifeblood of Bright Hockey Center...