The latest missteps by Evans, a survivor of more than a few unflattering episodes in his career, are a stunning turn for a business-friendly politician who has been pivotal to the kinds of projects that have defined the District's economic renaissance: Nationals Park, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and what is now known as the Capital One Arena.
We also want bold action from the government to deliver big-ticket infrastructure projects that are pivotal to future growth.
Shelton noted the upgrades were on the district's facility project list, but that other projects that are pivotal to the health and safety of students take priority.
This trivializes the role that DARPA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, and many other federal research agencies play in launching pivotal projects: the Internet, search engines, and many 3-D printing projects.
During her year as the Institute's Artist in Residence, Yap will oversee a participatory, site-specific project that aims to reveal the pivotal places, activities, communities, and experiences that shape Bay Area residents' connectedness to a neighborhood and region.
"This was a pivotal project in our career," Diller says.
Pivotal, VMware and Google have teamed up on a containerization project that the companies say should simplify creating, deploying and managing container projects at scale.
Still, the "pivotal event" that finally convinced Mr. Lashins to dust off his earlier project occurred about a year ago.
For there is another pivotal problem that could make or break their efforts to get the project off the ground: their ability to replicate as accurately as possible the complex life-giving power of solar energy.
Pivotal irrigator hoses project streams that allow farmers to squander hundreds, or thousands, of gallons per minute.
