Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the flight, biologists removed the inner ear sensory system of one of the mice, left the other normal, and put each in a "compartment in a rotating smooth-walled drum with an irregularity that afforded a possible foothold for each." Cameras recorded the brief critical no-gravity point of the rocket flight: the desensitized mouse clung to his perch, "whereas the normal animal clawed at the air, suggesting disorientation." A subsequent experiment with monkeys "clearly established the fact that the weightless state itself produces no disturbance of circulation in terms of heart rate or arterial and venous blood pressures...
...Central's shareholders to foot the entire cost of his fight. Said Young: "Your board has been persuaded . . . that it would be a discouraging precedent. . . for us to defray our own expenses." Bob Young had also changed his mind in other ways. When he was trying for a foothold on the Central board, he came out foursquare for cumulative voting to give minor stockholders representation on the board, even boasted-at the Albany meeting last year that he had voted 100,000 shares in favor of it. Now that he is in control, he has proposed that the shareholders...
...instead to let Russia put up the steel mill. Russia, keen to show the Indians that it can match the Westerners in industrial know-how, offered to put up a $95 million mill in four years. Commerce Minister Krishnamachari objected that the Russian plant would give the Communists a foothold inside central India, permitting them to intrigue among Indians, to make sure that Indian Communists were made foremen, and to channel funds into the Indian Communist Party...
...electing only three of Ward's nine directors each year (for three-year terms) Avery has concentrated his proxies, been able to keep any minority stockholder group from getting a foothold. To Ward's courtroom arguments that staggered terms* preserve continuity and stability in management, Judge Fisher replied: ". . . Stability in management is always desirable, but whether continuity of the same individuals on the board insures stability may be questioned ... It may lead to the perpetuation of error and mismanagement." Judge Fisher ordered Ward's directors to repeal the staggered-term bylaw, notify stockholders that all nine directorships...
...promised to send Burma $20 million-a-year worth of machinery and goods for the next ten years, along with technicians, and to invest another $5,000,000 annually in such joint enterprises as power projects and factories. Thus out of the peace Japan stands to get a friendly foothold in the Burma market...