Word: beachhead
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...Mancha region (Don Quixote country) that will also have five restaurants, a 500-seat theater and an 1,800-sq-m conference center. Says Heliodoro Giner, secretary of the European Casino Forum, an industry group: "There is nothing in Europe like this." Yet. Britain may be the biggest beachhead for the titans of gaming. The industry's main target in Europe, the U.K. already sends the most foreign visitors to Vegas. According to the Innovation Group, a New Orleans-based consulting firm, 71% of Brits have gambled in the past year, but preferred horse races, slot machines and lotteries...
Operation Overlord was not over on D-day. With astonishing speed, the stage managers of the operation moved tons of materials onto the Allied beachhead, building floating docks to receive thousands of tons more. Even Omaha Beach was a vast and busy port by June 9. D-day had made an Allied victory inevitable. To be more precise, the men of the invading force had made an Allied victory inevitable. Here are their patriotic voices, recalling the day they--and world history--will never forget...
...waiting for the higher courts. But Roey Thorpe got what she wanted: the pro-gay side goes into that case with the p.r. armor of 6,044 happy newlyweds. Those who oppose same-sex marriage must now argue against rights already granted. "I give them credit for achieving that beachhead," says the G.O.P.'s Mannix. "But will that short-term objective be worth weakening their long-term objectives...
...Bush administration grapples its way to an exit strategy, the neo-conservative vision in which an invasion of Iraq would create a Middle East beachhead of liberal-democratic, secular, free-market, pro-Western and Israel-friendly sentiment is looking increasingly like the stuff of fantasy. The leading U.S. constitutional adviser to ambassador Bremer last week told the British Daily Telegraph that "The end constitutional product is very likely to make many people in the U.S. government unhappy." Dr. Noah Feldman added that "any democratically elected Iraqi government is unlikely to be secular and unlikely to be pro-Israel. And frankly...
...while analysts were tantalized by the prospect of a direct line between two of the world's most important technology companies - and by an announcement by Orange last month that it will sell a Motorola-made Microsoft-based phone - they remained perplexed. Has Microsoft finally established a beachhead into the lucrative but elusive European mobile market? Or is the dongle just one more vaporware announcement...