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...would allow longshoremen-who belong to the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union, led by Jack Jones, a key supporter of the government's wage-austerity program-the right to handle cargo up to five miles away from British coastal ports. The legislation gives union members a foothold in the unloading of container shipping, which has reduced the need for longshore labor at docksides. The Lords had narrowed the proposed law's application to a half-mile zone around ports. In voting to rescind two amendments, a pair of Labor backbenchers abstained, and the government was defeated...
...fact resulted, at least until the 1920s when William Faulkner began cultivating Yoknapatawpha County, the patch of "rich deep black alluvial soil" that was alike his invention and his home. Suddenly, a whole generation of Southerners saw the ground beneath their feet for what it could be: a foothold on the universe. Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, early Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor-for close to 40 years, the line of inspired Southern writers seemed inexhaustible. Critics sometimes refer to this outpouring as the Southern literary renaissance...
...Major Foothold. China may benefit even more. The pact with Egypt provides a long-sought, major foothold for Peking in the Arab world. China has wanted to extend its influence into the Mediterranean for at least a decade. Until now its advances to the Arabs have been rebuffed, at least partly by Saudi Arabian suspicions of Communists and Egypt's need, in the face of massive Israeli military superiority, to acquire Soviet weapons technology. Concludes TIME Hong Kong Correspondent David Aikman: "In Peking, there must be only smiles. China has replaced Moscow as Egypt's ally...
Organized crime, says a Washington official, dominates the traditional porn industry, as well as massage parlors, topless bars and strip joints. Now it is a growing presence in porn films as well. Ironically, the Supreme Court's community-standards ruling in 1973 gave the mob its first foothold. Fearful of prosecution for interstate activities, many independent producers turned the risky business of distribution over to the Mafia. The mob also began pirating prints, then going to film producers and offering to take over future distribution and call off further piracy. The Mafia is in the business for the same reason...
...decision-making processes. The necessity for aid was not at issue, but the amounts relative to the stage of development of the movements were crucial. Because of the severe repression within Luanda at the outbreak of the armed struggle in 1961, MPLA was not able to build the same foothold within Angola as did simultaneous popular movements in Guinea and Mozambique. But the Soviet Union provided such an efficient propaganda machine that it allowed MPLA to glower under the successes of the other two movements. The Angolan party felt less and less compelled to strive inside Angola for what...