Word: linchpins
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Microsoft is only a software maker, of course, and the linchpin of Gates' strategy is getting the manufacturers of these machines to modify them so they will run his new programs. Judging by the blue-chip companies that will be sharing the dais with him when he unveils his system this week at the Hotel Macklowe in midtown Manhattan -- Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, Compaq Computer, Minolta, McCaw Cellular, Canon, NEC and Northern Telecom -- he seems to have made remarkable progress. Says Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future: "This...
...confess the truth when even a child can see it: against the evidence, the President recently denied that his stimulus plan was ever a centerpiece of his economic program, much as he once erroneously denied that his pledge of tax relief for the middle class was the linchpin of the scheme he propounded so successfully during the Democratic primaries. Backtracking on campaign promises is par for the course (and often prudent), but cavalier dissembling strains a President's credibility and complicates his task immeasurably...
Their investigation begins with a white blood cell called CD4. It is the linchpin of the immune system and the main target of HIV. As a general rule, people who become infected by HIV suffer a drop in their CD4 count from a normal level of about 1,200 cells per 1/1000th of a mL of blood to 500 cells or less. The risk of developing one or more of the illnesses associated with AIDS rises dramatically if the CD4 count drops below...
...somewhat more ambiguous quality might be called either adaptability or slipperiness. During the campaign, it has enabled the candidate to emphasize different parts of his message for different audiences, and occasionally switch signals. Though Clinton chastised Paul Tsongas for suggesting that a middle-class tax cut was the linchpin of the Governor's economic program, Clinton made it sound exactly like that when talking early in the campaign to the hard-pressed voters of New Hampshire. Later, as it became increasingly obvious that the size of the cut he first proposed could not be reconciled with his promises to reduce...
Author Nicholas Lemann in The Promised Land -- his best-selling study of black migration from the South -- demonstrates that "community action" became a linchpin of the 1960s War on Poverty, even though few policymakers understood its mischievous implications. Lemann quotes a key Johnson Administration official as saying that community action (mobilizing the poor to pressure the local political establishment) "might lead somewhere, but we didn't know where." What makes this historical point relevant and disconcerting is that the same can be said about current White House support for unrestricted Choice: no one knows what it will produce...