Word: footholds
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...faculty who agree to live in the city. The mortgages contain a clause allowing Harvard to purchase the homes should owners sell them, and some city councilors have pointed out in recent weeks that, even with an expansion ordinance in place, the homes will give the University a foothold in many Cambridge neighborhoods...
...owner of the French newsweekly L'Express (circ. 585,000), tried to acquire the Observer and then bought 35% of the nonvoting stock in the Beaverbrook chain, whose flagship is the Daily Express (circ. 2.3 million). He made no secret of the fact that he wanted a foothold in British publishing to advance his political ideas. By his own description, he was a "frustrated politician" worried about Britain's drift to the left...
...generations of immigrants, work was ultimately availing; the numb toil of an illiterate grandfather got the father a foothold and a high school education, and the son wound up in college or even law school. A woman who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in lower Manhattan had a niece who made it to the halcyon Bronx, and another generation on, the family went to Westchester County. So for millions of Americans, as they labored through the complexities of generations, work worked, and the immigrant work ethic came at last to merge with the Protestant work ethic...
...course in patchwork, pluralistic America, different classes and ethnic groups are perched at different stages in the work hierarchy. The immigrants-legal and illegal-who still flock densely to America are fighting for the foothold that the jogging tribes of self-actualizers achieved three generations...
...sobering fact that no representation election at Harvard is a sure bet. It is hard to underestimate the importance University attorneys placed on the election. Despite the energy necessary for a campaign of such intensity. Harvard fought tooth and nail to prevent District 65 from gaining a foothold and fragmenting University bargaining units...