Word: footholds
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...employers are in good shape to take a big strike. Since 1970, when some 74% of the nation's coal was mined by U.M.W. members, vast new strip mines in Wyoming and other Western states, where the U.M.W. has been unable to gain a foothold, have come into production. As a result, the union's share of national production has slumped to less than 54%. And industry has ample coal stocks on hand...
...bill that excepted such groups as policemen and corrections officers as well as the public school teachers already excluded. While seemingly apologizing for her cause by her willingness to exclude the more controversial groups of gay workers, Ms. Noble was actually trying valiantly to get at least a foothold for job-rights legislation, and eventually gay rights. Thursday brought defeat again...
France, which once ruled nearly half of Africa, gave up its last formal foothold on the continent this week. At a Sunday midnight ceremony in the decaying Red Sea city of Djibouti, a new flag of blue, green, white and red replaced the French Tricolor atop a floodlit pole at the high commissioner's residence overlooking the mud flats at the edge of Djibouti harbor. As a 21-gun salute boomed out and fireworks lit up the night sky, the French Territory of the Afars and Issas (T.F.A.I.) became the Republic of Djibouti, Africa's 50th independent state...
...length bad health forced him out of the game and then, when he recovered, it took a decade for him to buy his way back. Establishing a foothold in Chicago last year, he worked 15-hour stints day after day. Still, the Sox finished last. They also drew indifferently, and baseball's anticircus bloc began sounding elegies for Veeck. "I'd never suggested," Bill Veeck said, "that promotion by itself attracts fans. Winning draws fans. Winning plus promotion sets attendance records. Promoting with a last-place team, which is what we had to do last year, is only...
...built on the island of Las Palmas, the largest of the volcanic atolls of the Canary Islands that lie in the mid-Atlantic, 1000 miles off the coast of North Africa. It was the first course ever on Spanish territory. Another 12 years went by before golf gained a foothold on the Iberian mainland when the Madrid Polo Golf Club was established where the Castellana race track had once been...