Word: lynchpin
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...lynchpin of the campaign will likely be the University’s new campus in Allston. The planning and construction of the campus across the river—where Harvard owns more land than it does in Cambridge—will cost billions of dollars, as the center of the University is moved from the John Harvard statue to the Charles River...
Progressive taxation is the lynchpin of social progress because it funds these social programs and helps to redistribute wealth and income to those who need it most. Some conservatives argue that asking the ultra-rich to pay a higher percentage of their assets in taxes impedes their freedom and makes them less rich and thus less happy. But a growing body of research, including a study led by Harvard Professor of Psychology Daniel Gilbert, confirms what our elders always told us: that money cannot buy happiness...
Tenants of the Charlesview housing complex—located on a lynchpin property at the center of Harvard’s future Allston campus—want to be at the table for any land-swap negotiations between the University and the building’s board of directors, they said at a meeting last week...
...response, Harvard made significant changes to the plans—dividing the center into two four-story buildings on either side of Cambridge Street, to be connected with a tunnel, which FAS administrators envisioned as a lynchpin of the project...
...Meanwhile, the feds are watching closely to see if groups such as Hizballah use the Iraq crisis as a lynchpin for attacks. "If they sympathize and identify with Iraq and they decide this is just an affront to Muslims all over the world, then they could decide to get involved," said one law enforcement official. "We are certainly watching that--nationwide...