Word: foothold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...songs in, Mayer thanked his audience for not walking out after he played his only single “No Such Thing.” Mayer has gained a foothold on the radio, but his main fan base was admittedly created through the world of MP3’s. While he laments the fact that MP3’s often give a fan a one-sided and often irregular picture of how he usually plays a song, Mayer recognized that the medium is vital to the emerging artist. “It [MP3’s] made all the difference...
...coming away with $100 million in military aid and substantial additions to her depleted arsenal. Her country has largely been cut off from military assistance since Manila kicked the U.S. out of its two major South Asian bases in 1991. The Bush Administration was eager to regain a military foothold there. Last November, when Arroyo visited Washington, the President offered to send U.S. combat troops to join the Abu Sayyaf chase--despite a clause in the Philippine constitution prohibiting foreigners from fighting on the nation's soil. But a visiting-forces agreement signed in 1999 allows U.S. troops to join...
...right now may be quite different from Afghanistan - to prevent the emergence of a new hub of terrorist sanctuaries, rather than destroying an existing one. A mission, in other words, with heavy emphasis on intelligence and building the capacity and incentive for locals to stop Al Qaeda gaining a foothold...
...Capturing the northern city whose population numbers somewhere between 150,000 and 700,000 may be the key to breaking the Taliban's supply lines in the north and facilitating the Northern Alliance's reclaiming of much of northwestern Afghanistan. It would potentially also allow the U.S. a foothold deep inside Afghanistan to help wage war further south. But it is the psychological impact of taking it before winter that may be most important: Mazar-i-Sharif was the last major domino to fall to the Taliban in its conquest of Afghanistan, and its recapture by the opposition would signal...
...reach and, after the related sale of the mobile phone company Orange, a clean balance sheet. Earlier this month Gent gained control of Japan Telecom, that country's No. 3 provider. The deal also increased Vodafone's stake in mobile unit J-Phone and gives the company a major foothold in one of the world's fastest-growing and most profitable mobile markets...