The femur was able to rotate about this pivotal point about the frontal and the sagittal axis.
Even one man can be pivotal to bringing about change.
The tension builds until the theatergoer must make a pivotal decision about whom to trust, based solely on the voices and what appears on the computer screen.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve will meet on Tuesday faced with a pivotal decision about whether to abandon its presumption that the economy is gradually picking up steam and begin to consider new steps to keep the recovery from sputtering out.
But the confluence of the diagnosis and the state's election calendar could force Mr. Giuliani to make some pivotal decisions about his Senate candidacy rapidly, and over roughly the same difficult period of time.
Theodore Roszak, who three weeks after the Woodstock Festival in 1969 not only published a pivotal book about a young generation's drug-fueled revolt against authority but also gave it a name — "counterculture" — died on July 5 at his home in Berkeley, Calif.
This predicament, a sudden revelation of new, pivotal information about one's life, is the subject of many memoirs: Bliss Broyard, in "One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life — A Story of Race and Family Secrets," discovers shortly before her father's death that his family of origin was black and that he had "passed" for white.
Both Pirates and Yankees believe the most pivotal part about that Series might have been Yankees Manager Casey Stengel's decision not to start Ford in Game 1, which kept Ford from starting three Series games, including Game 7. "He was a money pitcher," said Vernon Law, the Pirates ace who won the 1960 Cy Young Award and who won two of the three games he started in the Series.
While VMware handles managing the server side of the house, Pivotal is about building software products.
Evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare is launching a new company that claims to offer dog owners answers to pivotal questions about their dogs' personalities and more.
