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New York, whose rhythms and swagger seemed to match that of the country’s booming economy, became the locus for much of this activity.

One of the factories the companies built in Hemlock in the 1960s has become the locus of Corning’s solar and semiconductor business.

In Christianity, the individual believer was untethered from a wider religious community and became the locus of meaning and authority.

Their central role in artificial intelligence, military equipment and other areas with national-security and economic significance has made them the locus of tensions between the world’s two superpowers.

Over the past five years, Fiji – a tiny South Pacific nation with a population of less than a million – has become the locus of one of the world's fastest growing HIV epidemics.