Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Father (Peter Michael Goetz) has the wheyfaced fatigue and resigned gallantry of the immigrant provider who got a foothold on U.S. soil only to have the Depression whittle it to a scrabbling fingerhold on survival. Simon is openly comfortable with the Jewishness of his characters, and he knows the dread words that are italicized whispers in this home: "cancer," "diphtheria," "heart attack...
...seats, its worst showing since 1961. West Germany's newest political movement, the environmentalist, antinuclear Green Party, rounded out the Bundestag tally by winning 5.6% of the vote and 27 seats. The Greens are the first left-wing opposition group in the country to gain a parliamentary foothold since the Communist Party won 15 Bundestag seats...
...showed Kohl's Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union, gaining an estimated 49.3% of the popular vote. Kohl's Social Democratic rival, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 57, ran second with 38.2%. The environmentalist, antinuclear Green Party polled around 5%, possibly gaining a disruptive foothold in the Bundestag. The small Free Democratic Party, Kohl's old coalition partner, defied predictions of its demise and bounced back with...
...Lebanon reach an agreement on troop withdrawals, Syrian President Hafez Assad will still have to go along with it. Assad has reportedly made up his mind to remove his 30,000 troops from Lebanon when the Israeli forces are withdrawn. But any Israeli efforts to gain a permanent military foothold in Lebanon could lead to a similar demand by the Syrians, and thus to further delays...
...business means, for Jobs, not just lighting fires under the staff and gladhanding the media. It also involves?crucially?keeping the lines open to the young. His planned donation of 10,000 Apples to California schools gets him good will, a generous tax break and an even stronger foothold in what Hollywood likes to call "the youth market." He makes periodic campus appearances, where he is as likely as not to sit, shoes off, in the lotus position atop a dormitory coffee table and engagingly field questions. Nothing too specific, mind. The students will not press for details on "Supersite...