nerve center

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She has joined dozens of other volunteers at the Dios Habla Hoy church, which has become a nerve center for locals opposing immigration raids.

From Barron's

Last month, staffers in the company’s dimly lighted nerve center in its Salt Lake City office monitored the weather and drones drifting in and out of clouds on live feeds.

From The Wall Street Journal

An evocatively realized setting such as Ms. Bigelow’s Washington nerve center can be ample reason to make a movie worth seeing, but three others that were overflowing with local atmosphere offered far more than that.

From The Wall Street Journal

But a growing fleet of Amazon data centers has turned the region around Umatilla into an unlikely nerve center for one of the most expensive infrastructure build-outs in U.S. history.

From The Wall Street Journal

She applies a forensic eye to what might happen in a handful of nerve centers if radar picked up an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile headed straight for the Midwest.

From The Wall Street Journal