Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dilemma confronting the U.N. was acute. Although Srebrenica had been declared a safe haven by the Security Council, the propensity of the Serbs to pour artillery fire onto civilians spoke in favor of a speedy evacuation. But with an important Muslim foothold at stake, there was also the risk of abetting, albeit unwittingly, the Serb goal of ethnic cleansing. The Bosnian authorities themselves were not pressing for a mass exodus, save for 500 badly wounded soldiers in need of hospital treatment. Said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokeswoman Sylvana Foa: "They are very frightened, because they know...
...Leclerc battle tanks for an estimated $3.5 billion, beating out the American Abrams M1A2 and British Challenger 2. The deal, which also buys the U.A.E. 46 noncombat tanks and armored escort vehicles, represents a major victory for financially beset, state-owned Giat Industries and gives France a greater foothold in the lucrative Middle Eastern armaments market. Since the Gulf War, the Gulf Cooperation Council alone has placed $40 billion in military-hardware orders...
...gets overloaded, the balance can tip back to microbes at any time." The cholera epidemic that hit Latin American cities last year, hospitalizing more than 400,000 people and killing at least 4,000 in a few months, shows how quickly a disease can move when it finds a foothold in crowded slums...
...Light says Graham left the Ed School on astrong enough foothold to withstand thedean-related turmoil. Citing enthusiasm among thefaculty and a financial situation that hasstabilized, Light says that in his 25 years hers,the Ed School is the strongest he has seen...
...this foothold, both politicos and citizens say, that is under dispute as a subject for change for the CCA and as the Independents last bulwark of power...