Word: lynchpin
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...professors and administrators, who fought for the tunnel until the bitter end, said they considered it the lynchpin of the new CGIS facility, providing an essential link between related offices in the two buildings and connecting food services to the lecture halls and seminar rooms...
...Those who fund government are those that government serves,” Stein said. “The lynchpin to solving [these problems] is taking our government back...
...that discussion was how to provide urgent aid to the millions of Afghanis who face starvation, but high on agenda was a request from Afghanistan's exiled king, Zahir Shah, to send peacekeeping troops to Kabul in the event of the Taliban's collapse. King Zahir is the lynchpin of Western hopes for a consensus-based government in Kabul that could begin rebuilding the failed state of Afghanistan with international assistance. Maintaining the security of such a government in the face of multiple dangers is a task that may fall to the international community - a prospect that is sure...
...year old church of Santa Ana in Ayacucho, Peru suffered an estimated $300,000 in damage in a 1997 fire. It has long been the cultural lynchpin of the community, which was torn by a 12-year civil war between the Peruvian government and the Shining Path rebel forces...
...long as people need to sleep and eat, all agree, technology itself doesn't threaten to disintegrate the House system. But if the House system doesn't figure out how to engage technology to make a community, it might be reducing its own relevance as the lynchpin of the College experience.Certain Houses--like Georgi's Leverett or Pforzheimer--may see their communities become tighter, as other, less-technologically inclined Houses fall behind...