But there was ambiguity in that awkward word, nexus.
As President, Mr Yushchenko failed to break the nexus between politics and business and turned a blind eye to the murky brokering of Russian gas to Ukraine.
That nexus unfolds in a series of steps that build on one another and must be separately understood (see diagram, below).
SHERRY TURKLE, the psychologist at MIT who studies the nexus between people and gadgets, believes that the tools of mobility are leading to "the emergence of a new type of person".
He reckons that a nexus of "user-licensed" content plus a quality sieve represents "the next revolution" in web video.
Would Andy Adinton have done his table some magic nexus where you know good things happen?