Word: beachhead
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...started happening about three years ago, when I turned 39 and was first preparing to establish a beachhead in my 40s. By any measure, 39 is a tough age to be. It's the age at which even the fittest ballplayer is described as a "grizzled veteran." It's the age at which a former rock 'n' roller embarking on a comeback tour will be referred to respectfully as "the patriarch of pop." It's the age at which you first realize that no matter how successful you become in your career, you are chronologically disqualified from ever again being...
...BEACHHEAD IN BOSNIA
...million, the last U.S.-owned firm that still makes TV sets (albeit in Mexico) signed a deal under which it will become a subsidiary of South Korea's LG Electronics. The LG Group, formerly Lucky-Goldstar, thus became South Korea's first conglomerate to establish a major beachhead in American consumer electronics. The firm, whose TV sets captured just 1.7% of the U.S. market last year, could hardly contain its glee, issuing a statement that the $351 million acquisition catapulted it into "the same league as other top-class makers...
...master strategist-or at least it seemed so at the time. When Bill Gates announced last October that Microsoft would buy Intuit -- maker of the popular "electronic-checkbook" program Quicken -- it looked as if the software giant would not only eliminate a meddlesome competitor but also gain an instant beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal investigation of Microsoft by negotiating a consent decree...
...When we finally got the order to counterattack at 2 p.m., we took lots of casualties from their air force and their naval guns offshore. We remained in that position for six weeks, keeping the enemy contained in the beachhead by attacking every day and every night. Once, near the end, we took the high ground overlooking the beachhead, but the Canadian infantry counterattacked. We were driven away, and that was the end of the operation...