Word: footholds
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...only $7,000,000 in direct investments-and its sales to Africa of $608 million last year accounted for only 9% of Japan's total exports. Nevertheless, by combining courteous persistence, cut-rate prices, fat markups for local dealers and fast delivery, the Japanese are steadily firming their foothold. Japan's trade with Africa has nearly doubled in the past five years. Only in the former French colonies have the Japanese failed so far to make any real progress, primarily because of import restrictions favoring the French...
...19th century, the U.S. has grown to a major Pacific maritime power; to surrender the Pacific to China now makes no more sense than surrendering it to Imperial Japan would have in 1941. With Southeast Asia gone, the U.S. would rapidly approach a point where it might have no foothold in Asia from Okinawa to Australia. Beyond that, the argument cannot be sustained in the light of modern weaponry: geographic spheres of influence are simply not pertinent in an era of ICBMs. The Chinese themselves pay no attention to the theory, as is shown by their activities in Africa...
...more than a glimpse of the abyss below. "How poor to go to death with no more than the notes of good intention," he wrote six years ago, in Advertisements. Every scene is almost over the edge, compressed with the tension of a man who may slip from his foothold on his own sweat; so is Mailer's prose--sometimes straight narrative riding on the sheer power of events, but sometimes inflated, rhetorical, once or twice embarrassing...
...deficit in 1962 to a $2,913,000 profit last fiscal year. It still has a long way to go to overtake Hertz, which has three times as many cars and five times the gross income. But the tie-up with I.T. & T. will give Avis a foothold abroad, where Hertz dominates, and make more realistic its goal for 1967: double its present revenues and profit margins...
...destroy the Turkish Cypriots, some experts assumed that the deal might involve radar equipment and antiaircraft weapons sophisticated enough to prevent Turkish planes from resuming their forays from the mainland 40 miles away. Such equipment would surely require the services of expert Russian personnel-giving Moscow its first real foothold in the Mediterranean...