Word: locus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall, maybe early next year. First there are the months of pretrial motions. Depending on whether it's your side that makes them or theirs, the motions are either essential preliminaries or cynical delaying tactics. But as the nation marks the first anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the locus of that bitter and confounding episode is shifting to the eventual trial scene in Denver. Since federal courts don't ordinarily permit cameras, some families of the victims who won't be making the almost 600-mile trip from Oklahoma City are petitioning for special closed-circuit coverage. The defendants...
...most serious religious schism in centuries is pitting the Orthodox Church of Russia against the Patriarchate of Constantinople, historically the most honored see of the Orthodox Church. The locus of the fight is tiny: jurisdiction over 54 Orthodox clerics in Estonia, a mostly Lutheran country once part of the Soviet Union. But the ramifications may be global...
PUCC's rise in the council was rapid and sudden. The coalition was formed last spring by a group consisting largely of Perspective editors. The group was inspired by a guest commentary in that publication which urged undergraduates to take make the council a locus of student activism...
...courts are perceived more as a locus for punishment and "rehabilitation" than for authentic self-assertion of rights and interests, they drive poorer litigants out of the system. Given this dynamic, I no longer wonder at the corporations' domination of the small claims courts in which I work. Their methods are sickeningly clear...
...main attraction on the tours of recruited athletes, an impressive display of Harvard's devotion to its Division I athletic programs. Harvard fields 41 athletic teams and the majority of these teams, whether in or out of season, have a weekly weightlifting routine. The Cage was easily the locus of the athletic community, a place to workout in the company of other intensely training athletes...