Under cover of darkness, the F-117s dropped 2,000-pound bombs on critical "nodes" in the Iraqi air defense system.

At least two more critical force-field nodes were in imminent danger of becoming unstable, threatening a lethal chain reaction.

What he didn't know was that nearly all of the royal kingdom's wealth passes through these critical nodes.

There is no critical node.

These critical nodes, the report explained, are usually above ground and sometimes protected only by chain-link fences and padlocks.

The only interesting bit was how the imposition of order and chaos at what she called critical nodes could change whole weather patterns.

It remains a critical node in the small network of institutions devoted to ongoing Philippine scholarship produced locally and internationally.

Yet technological advance is clearly a critical node in the network of causes; indeed, it may be the node that activates the entire net.

Finally, the RTLs help identify, validate, and/or re-scope potential critical nodes identified through systems developed understanding of the operational environment.

He searched for the three critical nodes hi the microscopic chip glued to the back of the glass.