Word: linchpins
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...linchpin to all the subplots is Roger White II, 42, an impeccably dressed light-skinned black partner in the venerable Atlanta law firm of Wringer Fleasom & Tick. The nickname he picked up at Morehouse College, Roger Too White, reflected his disdain for all the campus talk about black separatism. But his old Morehouse friend and fraternity brother Wesley Dobbs Jordan is now the mayor of Atlanta. That connection explains why Roger is asked to represent Georgia Tech's All-American running back, Fareek ("the Cannon") Fannon...
McAleese stressed that open dialogue was the linchpin of the Northern Ireland peace agreement...
...markets during the past decade, a discipline now crumbling from Moscow to Malaysia. "They're seeing Brazil's struggle as a crucial stand for the orthodox model," says Emily Alejos, vice president for emerging markets at BEA Associates investment firm in New York City. And because it is the linchpin of the dynamic South American market, Alejos adds, "letting Brazil succumb to the global contagion would mean Argentina, Chile and other Latin American countries following on its heels...
...bottom line, says Novak, is that "Starr needs Monica's testimony. After all, she's the linchpin of his entire case...
...ordering the three Americans to fly back to Baghdad and the inspection team there to continue its work. At the White House, national security aides convened an emergency meeting to consider a U.S. response. "This is a very serious move by the Iraqis," said an official. "It threatens the linchpin of what we've built to contain Saddam...