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...invasion of Baghdad would most likely start under cover of darkness. U.S. troops, brought in by helicopters, would seek a secure foothold from which to expand their presence in the city. The biggest advantage U.S. troops would have in downtown Baghdad would be their night-vision devices, giving them a greenish but clear-eyed view of a nighttime world. Once inside Baghdad, the Americans would start clearing buildings one by one, from the top floor down. They would probably use the technique that Israeli forces employed during fighting earlier this year in the West Bank's Balata refugee camp. Once...
...simultaneous rise of environmentalism also inspired what you might call hobbit architecture, cottages crowned with listless greenery and the odd solar panel. Paolo Soleri's ecotopian settlement, Arcosanti, began to take shape in the Arizona desert. But it wasn't until the 1990s that green architecture gained a foothold in mainstream building. That was partly the result of a growing realization that "sustainable" buildings have lower long-term heating and cooling costs. States began offering tax incentives for construction that put less pressure on power grids or water supplies. Coming of age at the same time was a generation...
...band the Pixies. If in 1992 you were a teenage girl who considered attending the Rhode Island School of Design as a less adventurous alternative to the expatriate life in Amsterdam, odds are pretty good that you were into their first album, "Pod." Nobody even pretended to establish a foothold on the lyrics (Example: "She's in a kitchen in Kentucky/ And she thinks she's Peter Pan") but the cover art made it reasonably clear the vegetable of the title referred to part of the male anatomy. It boasted one of the best covers of a Beatles song ever...
...acceptance speech, Ford said he was accepting the honor on behalf of CI, saying that he “merely [serves] as a foothold for the organization...
TARGETS Terrorists with links to al-Qaeda have established a foothold here in the past decade...