Word: footholds
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...appeared at Chicago's Cook County Hospital in February and spread to Monrovia Community Hospital near Pasadena in April. This month it gained a foothold at the Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles: pantsuits for nurses. With official sanction, 20 of the hospital's 400 nurses broke the ice by wearing the snappy new suits in the out-patient clinic, many more were planning to buy one ($14 for the A-shaped tunic, $8 for the pants). Some older nurses feel that the pantsuits look "unprofessional." But even they admit that because of all the leaning, reaching...
...wasted in unofficial strikes led by the Maoists. Result: Fiat has had to scale down this year's production target from 1.8 million vehicles to 1.55 million, and it has a backlog of 250,000 unfilled orders. The production slowdown has allowed foreign competition to establish a significant foothold for the first time in the old Fiat fief. Imports have risen to a record 25.7% of the Italian auto market for the first five months of this year, up from 10% for the same period...
...point." So far, however, only small commando raids have been launched. Heavily outgunned (10 to 1), the Israelis are also outmanned. A lone Israeli division faces an Egyptian force perhaps ten times larger, yet so far has dissuaded Nasser from attempting a drive across Suez to regain a foothold on the Sinai Peninsula. Says Bar-Lev: "I think they will get tired before we will...
...Soviet warships, in line with Moscow's interest in expanding Russia's naval presence, are frequent visitors. The U.S. has established an Apollo rescue and recovery station. Both Communist and Nationalist China have been working to gain a political foothold on the island. Britain, which wrested control of the island from France in 1810, still supports the price of sugar, which makes up 95% of its exports...
...recent American involvement in Laos and the resumption of bombing north of the DMZ have indicated, the activity of U.S. troops in Cambodia is part of a larger effort to gain a foothold in Southeast Asia. Whether Nixon's gambit wil succeed in protecting Lon Nol's regime from further wearing away is still an open question. But it would be a bad mistake for the anti-war forces in this country to focus on the Cambodian intrusion as an independent phenomenon without extending their new awareness to a more thorough-going critique of American activity in Indochina...