Word: linchpins
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Crusaders for resiliency--and Brooks, co-author of the new book Raising Resilient Children, freely admits he's on a crusade--generally agree on the necessity of a linchpin relationship between the child and at least one parental figure. One of the pillars of the movement, the late Julius Segal, a pioneering psychologist in resiliency research, spoke of a "charismatic adult," a person with whom children "could identify and from whom they gather strength." While the obvious candidate for the role would be a mother or father, Segal noted that in a "surprising number of cases that person turns...
...When this slowdown is over - and with the Fed cutting interest rates at a furious pace, the markets showing signs of life, and large parts of the economy showing surprising resiliency, it's not likely to last the year - productivity growth should go back on the uptick. And the linchpin of the New Economy will be back in force...
These snipers are the linchpin of Israel's military strategy in the Aqsa intifadeh. After the violent Hasmonean Tunnel riots of September 1996, started when Israel opened a tunnel near the golden Dome of the Rock and the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the army decided to prepare for an even more terrible outbreak. Major General Giora Eiland, head of the army's operations division, was at the heart of this planning. A former commander of the Givati Brigade, Eiland insisted a few years back on buying the M-16A3 for the army, though most other generals didn...
...find that it still had the same curative effect on patients: the water, they discovered, had "memory." In the critically acclaimed English play The Memory of Water, three sisters return home for their mother's funeral only to find that their pasts still permeate their world, even though the linchpin, their mother, is gone. Long buried conflicts rise to the fore as the men in their lives pop in unexpectedly. But far from a somber play about death and mourning, The Memory of Water is a hilarious comedy about sex, drugs and the embarrassing details of a shared past. Winner...
Since his release, Pendergast has become an advocate for the pending legislation that would end legal betting on college sports in Nevada. He has acknowledged his guilt and cooperated with authorities, but he has also singled out Nevada as the linchpin of the scheme. He told lawmakers and others on Capitol Hill in February, "Without Nevada, without the option of betting money in Nevada, the Northwestern basketball point-shaving scandal would not have occurred...