Word: linchpins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Winthrop Master James A. Davis said Kelly willbe missed. "She's very good help and always invery good spirits," he said. Davis described heras "an institution, a linchpin [which] holds theplace together...
...linchpin of the Navy's surface fleet is the high-priced ($1 billion apiece) Aegis cruiser, which Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has called the "most advanced air-defense system in the world today." Named after the mythical shield of Zeus, Aegis cruisers like the Ticonderoga and Yorktown bristle with radars and weaponry capable of tracking and attacking 18 incoming missiles at a time. The Aegis radar is linked to a computerized fire-control system for the ship's antiaircraft guns, depth charges and rocket-launched torpedoes. Just seven of these advanced vessels are in service, but another...
Cave's negative view of Ghorbanifar failed to prevent the Iranian from becoming the linchpin of the covert operation. By November 1985 the Israelis, who had checked out Ghorbanifar at the request of Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian businessman who deems himself a peacemaker, had convinced the NSC staff that Ghorbanifar was too well connected in Iran to be ignored. The NSC undertook the Iran initiative, with the now obviously disastrous results...
Another setback for the government came in February with the collapse of the Tenth Credit Cooperative, a major Taiwan savings and loan institution, and the Cathay Investment & Trust Co., linchpin of the mighty Cathay group (estimated 1984 assets: $2.5 billion). The cooperative's chairman, Tsai Chen-chou, had funneled more than $190 million from Tenth Credit to fund his own shaky business schemes. Many citizens feel that members of the ruling Kuomintang (K.M.T.) knew of the scandal but looked the other way. Indeed, Tsai and his half brother Tsai Chen-nan, chairman of the Cathay Investment & Trust Co., had been...
...worldwide conference and would risk shredding the multilateral trading system. Bit-by- bit talks would also force a test of loyalties on European nations. Paris lost no time reminding them that there are questions about the kind of bargains that could be struck without the consent of France, a linchpin of the ten-nation European Community...