nexus
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Since Shenghe had bought its stake in the company, Western governments treated Peak as being part of the “nexus with China,” said Davis.
In the U.S., oil inventory at the Cushing Oil Hub, a critical oil shipping nexus located in Oklahoma, remains stubbornly low, yet local prices aren’t surging in the way they once did.
From Barron's
EPA—that cleaned up prior judicial messes and reined in the feds by stripping its claim to any “significant nexus” to navigable waters and tightening the definition of wetlands.
Scipio went directly to New Carthage, the nexus of Carthaginian power in the Iberian peninsula.
The nexus of these addresses falls in the Burbank and Glendale area, which Maimon points out is the home of Armenian Power, an organized crime group known for conducting sophisticated financial crimes.
From Los Angeles Times
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