Word: pivotal
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...almost identical plays, with senior center Paul Dufault breaking in on goal in both instances and attempting to beat Spillane glove side. And in the 17th minute, junior forward Steve Rolecek had all but recorded his first goal of the season, driving a rebound off a shot from freshman pivot Matt McCollem. But Spillane recovered just in time to flash his glove and maintain the shutout.Although junior winger Nick Coskren registered an equalizer just a minute later and added a go-ahead goal on a deflection in the third frame, there was little doubt that Spillane almost single-handedly preserved...
...pivot point is this: now that Huckabee seems likely to slow down Romney in Iowa, does Team Giuliani now shift its own pre-Florida efforts from Iowa to New Hampshire? Why bet any money or time on Iowa now that someone else is doing your work for you - and you could wind up in fourth place even if you play your cards well? My guess is that this calculation is already being embraced by some at Giuliani headquarters. Last week, with their man's polls sagging, Giuliani's team finally spent some of its cash on ads in New Hampshire...
...Garrulous and avuncular, sipping a Bloody Mary at 4 p.m. in a Beverly Hills hotel, Coppola explains the crisis of confidence that immobilized him, and his career pivot from John Grisham to a Romanian mythologist. In 2004 the director was much like Matei before the lightning struck; he was frustrated and grappling with a consuming project he couldn't complete. He'd spent most of the '80s and '90s making forgettable films like The Cotton Club and Jack to pay off the enormous debts he had incurred on such experiments as his 1982 musical, One from the Heart. Though there...
...some keen observers had predicted, nothing tangible came out of the meetings. But Sarkozy still got what he came for: a burnishing of his image as the new pivot player in U.S.-European relations - a role left vacant by the departure of Tony Blair as Prime Minister of Britain. And it's a role whose value on the continent Sarkozy recognizes. "What he wants is a bilateral relationship with Bush so that he can do what Blair so often did, which is serve as a swing between the U.S. and its European partners," says Jeremy Shapiro, a fellow...
...Bruder, the horrors of 9/11 served as a pivot point into active philanthropy. A real estate developer who calls New York City his hometown, he was particularly interested in tackling the social conditions in the Muslim world that foment support for such violent radicalism--specifically, the lack of jobs. After consulting Middle East scholar Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, Bruder concluded that the people most resentful of the U.S. were those who were educated but lacked employment. The time he had spent doing business in Northern Ireland confirmed Bruder's notion that the path to peace and democracy...