Word: footholds
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...from bombing Haiphong's piers or mining the harbor. And it is another bridge of Soviet ships that carries the $1,000,000-a-day in supplies that sustains Castro's Cuba as the only Communist foothold in the Hemisphere...
Despite Lockheed's quick start, McDonnell Douglas is grabbing the first-and possibly decisive-foothold in the 1,000-plane airbus market partly because U.S. airlines are still smarting over the performance of Lockheed's last commercial transport, the turboprop Electra. In 1959, Electras began coming apart in midair; Lockheed spent $25 million strengthening structural weaknesses, and the plane has performed splendidly ever since. With the American order in hand, Douglas may have a bargaining edge, too, with airlines such as United, Eastern and Delta, which are also shopping...
Galbraith allows for the possibility that he might be wrong?a concession rarely made by the more dogmatic critics of the war. "Should our continued presence be necessary," he says, "the course I propose will accord us a foothold for a time and thus allow us a second look." In any event, he says in a tart aside, past policy "has been wrong so long and so alarmingly that even a modestly right one will seem superb...
...entire war. Not all of Westmoreland's and Johnson's subordinates agree. The dissenters suspect Giap of intending just the opposite?of having created the threat to Khe Sanh as a diversion designed to draw U.S. forces away from cities and towns and thus give him a foothold in the populated areas that has consistently been denied...
That comeback by private enterprise is particularly impressive because, in the best of circumstances, it is virtually impossible for private business to gain a foothold in a field totally dominated by the Federal Government. In this case, the biggest part of the job was to beat the red-tape-ridden FHA at its own game. The door to competition was opened by FHA's rigid 6% ceiling on interest rates, which President Johnson last week asked Congress to abolish. In recurrent periods of tight money, banks and other lenders have increasingly shunned FHA and Veterans Administration loans...