Word: nexus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first five weeks of the Nixon Administration, the costly complex of defensive missiles and radars has become the nexus of several great issues: the allocation of resources between domestic and military programs, overall nuclear strategy and the possibility of arms-limitation negotiations with the Russians. The 91st Congress is more conservative than the 89th-on paper at least-and therefore could be expected to be more sympathetic to requests from the military. Changing public attitudes and political considerations over the past three years, however, have stiffened resistance on Capitol Hill. Many Congressmen are concerned that any hold-down on Government...
...openness. It is bathed in natural light, which pours down a central courtyard and through wide light shafts rising the full height of the nine-story building. It is extraordinarily accessible, with a subway station nearby and even has a concourse running through its ground floor. "It is the nexus of a lot of pedestrian routes in the city," says Architect Noel McKinnell, whose firm, Kallmann, Mc-Kinnell & Knowles, won the competition to design the building as the centerpiece of Boston's 60-acre Government Center...
...approach to world affairs, the real need is for intellectual sabotage to the point where making foreign policy is as hopeless as ending the farm surplus problem--and its solution as drastic. Until visionary, or even decent and more humane, people retake the White House and the decision-making nexus, our job is to obstruct the government in every conceivable way -- if we do, in fact, have mankind's best interests at heart, and not merely a chauvinistic longing to keep the brainless bureaucracy running at top speed. This doesn't necessarily require a positive commitment to a specific ideology...
...claim to indemnification for loss of life may be asserted if the persecutes has been deliberately or frivolously killed or driven to his death. It shall be sufficient if there is a probable causal nexus between death and persecution...
...Brussels-bound passenger at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, Ray eluded a worldwide professional manhunt fortified by a $100,000 reward for his capture. Last week, with the accused assassin immured in a maximum-security cell in Southwest London's Wandsworth prison, policemen unraveled the nexus of plastic faces, borrowed identities and bogus papers that he had woven for two months across two continents...