Word: footholds
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...Chicago Tribune argued that "Angola would provide a foothold for the spread of Russian influence in Africa." On the other hand, CBS Newscaster Walter Cronkite felt that Angola could become another Viet Nam and began a series on the U.S. involvement "to try to play our small part in preventing that mistake this time...
...view, the Angolan aid issue is a basic test of American will in the face of Soviet expansionism. Kissinger argued that only because of the U.S.-supplied equipment, the anti-Soviet groups in the former Portuguese colony have so far managed to thwart Moscow's desire for a foothold on the southwest coast of Africa. Among other things, Soviet air and naval bases in Angola would give the Russians the capacity to intercept Western supertankers en route from the Persian Gulf to Europe...
...away its rubles in Angola. They argue that there is no way to guarantee that sizable Soviet backing will buy an obedient satellite state or even produce a trustworthy ally. Moreover, even if the Soviets were to gain naval and air bases in Angola, giving them a long-coveted foothold on the West Coast of Africa, skeptics maintain that the strategic advantages would not be worth the damage done to Soviet-American relations and East-West détente...
...work wherever I could get it, but I'd prefer to work in a regional theatre where there is criticism and professionalism, where you aren't so inured from the realities of the outside world that you're stuck in self-congratulatory situations. And then, unless you get your foothold in a regional theatre, in Minneapolis or Milwaukee or ACT in San Francisco or someplace, you come to New York and you just have to hustle for a job--it's really hard. Certainly the life of the theatre is such now that all of us, anybody with a brain...
...profit on sales of $2.4 billion, 53% of its business came from Washington. By 1974, the Hartford, Conn.-based company had reduced that to a third of $3.3 billion annual sales. One reason: it acquired Essex International, Inc., a major producer of electromechanical wire. That move gave United a foothold in both the auto and construction industries and was largely responsible for lifting profits last year to $104.7 million, from $58.1 million in 1973. Still, United was determined to diversify further in order to reduce Government business to 25% of total sales...