Word: footholds
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...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...
...despite their losses, the Independents have maintained a foothold in City Hall due to the wealth of politically sympathetic employees whom they hired over the course of their 20-year hegemony on the council...
...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...
...Once a certain group or ethnic community getsa foothold in an area, other families of the sameethnicity tend to follow them and move in also,"he says...
...House administrations, from Kennedy through Nixon, were consumed by a debate over federal antipoverty efforts -- a Washington policy war that combined the worst features of academic detachment and fang-baring political ambition. His heroes are the migrants who managed to clamber into the middle class, mostly on the narrow foothold of modest government jobs. His villains -- and there are more of those -- are the politicians and policymakers of both left and right who botched the War on Poverty...