Word: footholds
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Tucked away behind walls, doors, shades, locks, closed mouths, and closed minds, the disabled and the mentally handicapped have no such foothold on the attention and the anxious imagination of San Jose and Costa Rica. They are too expediently forgotten; too easily neglected and ignored...
...labyrinthine religious and legal scandal involving the alleged lease of Church properties in an Arab area of the Old City to Jewish investors. Eirinaios' opponents within the Greek Orthodox Church accuse him of shady financial dealings, while his Palestinian flock complains that the leases give Israel a politically charged foothold in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem. The scandal has divided the Church - which owns some of the most important Christian shrines in Israel - between a few loyalist bishops and a rebel group led by Eirinaios' former right-hand man, Bishop Aristarchos of Constantini, which wants Eirinaios out. It has also...
...1980s and '90s, Mexico's biggest kingpins ran networks that employed thousands of people; now gangs like the Zetas, whose members number at most in the low hundreds, are waging vicious battles against one another--and against remnants of cartels like the Sinaloa Mafia--to gain a foothold in the trade. Officials in the U.S. and Mexico believe those turf fights are behind a surge in murders, kidnappings and criminal extortion in several towns along the U.S.-Mexico border. The border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, never known for drug violence until the Zetas moved there a few years...
...hockey and American football to viewers. With NASN already available in Britain, Ireland and Germany, the expansion will provide nearly 20 million homes with access to its sports fare - which this week includes three opening-day Major League Baseball games. The channel's strategy is to gain a foothold as part of a basic digital service. Baseball is played in leagues from France to Russia - and with considerable skill by the Dutch, Spanish and Italians. The popularity of televised NBA games, and transplanted NFL Europe football league, demonstrate a European appetite for U.S. sports. So it's perhaps not surprising...
...White House for a new building to house the intelligence chief and his staff. Symbolically at least, it indicates that the DNI--who has the authority to hire 500 employees but whose role in the byzantine intelligence bureaucracy is still not entirely clear--will have a solid foothold in turf-conscious Washington. The news came as a particular blow to Pentagon boosters, who are fearful that the DNI will threaten the Defense Department's 80% share of the $40 billion U.S. intelligence budget...