Word: footholds
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Lately, Slater has been retreating, selling many of his holdings in Britain, South Africa and the Far East. Last week he acknowledged the failure of his strategy to gain a foothold in the U.S. Only a year after Slater, Walker bought control of the Franklin retail-store chain for more than $13.1 million, he sold it for just $7.8 million. The buyer was Sol Kittay, a British emigrant and former head of the B.V.D. underwear company who is known for acquiring losing operations and making them profitable...
...memorable part of their lives at Harvard. The ability to teach and the possibility of gaining some close contacts with others in the general Harvard community are both viewed by graduate students as a welcome relief after the first two years as isolated students attempting to gain a foothold on the bottom rung of the academic hierarchy...
...finds, cripples the personality, yet in rebelling against it, she has no other solid focus. Unlike the language of the male world, orbiting so neatly in its Ptolemaic course, her own vocabulary is still formative, fluid. How easy then, when so unsure inside, to locate in analysis a surer foothold upon self-understanding. And how uncertain. It's a slippery problem. It means, finally, separating the human needs from the needs of the sex role. It means grappling with the female sensibility--whatever that...
...labor party, would win the elections at the end of October and continue in power. Mapai has never failed in an election in the 25 year history of the state But it also appeared that Likud, a rightist ultranationalist faction, had a strong chance of gaining a solid foothold in the parliament, due in part to the support it hoped to receive from newly arrived immigrants, particularly Soviet Jews...
...Israeli military aim is to conclusively defeat the Arabs so as to avoid any future attack of this sort," Safran said. He said that the Arab aim to obtain a definite foothold on the east bank, in the Sinai, was being forestalled. "The Arabs must reach the line of Passe in order to achieve victory," Safran said. "They will not be able...