In New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has made gun control efforts a centerpiece of his next year in office, pledging to pass a tough new assault weapons ban in his state, limits on large-capacity magazines and measures to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.
Now the glittering centerpiece of a $300 million flood control project, financed by the federal government and a local sales tax, Copia has served as a symbol of change and a flash point for resentment in a town where the goddess of abundance has spent precious little time.
The centerpiece of the scanning mirror control system is a custom script that uses the MATLAB Image Acquisition Toolbox to determine the positions of the light patterns on the second computer monitor.
Radio controls fan out from a sundial-like centerpiece on the dash, with climate-control knobs below.
When the summit meeting was announced several weeks ago, officials hoped to make an arms-control agreement its centerpiece, and saw reasons for optimism.
Mr. Barnes, who declined to discuss the issue today, has made controlled growth a centerpiece of his tenure, persuading state lawmakers in 1999 to create a regional transportation agency that has broad powers over land use and construction.
Suddenly, a lame-duck mayor who has said he wants to spend his last 18 months in office redefining his legacy with the poor and minorities found the centerpiece of his legacy -- crime control -- under attack.
Party leaders are preparing to make health care the centerpiece of their campaign to win control of the House and the Senate in November.
Under the plan, Japan Post's financial units were to be freed from government control by 2017, a centerpiece of structural changes meant to forge a more market-oriented economy in Japan.
Both the Afghan government and its Western allies have made passing control of security to Afghans a centerpiece of the strategy here.
