Word: toe-hold
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...topic of sponsorship, it is interesting to note that of the 11 major corporate sponsors for the Games, only one of them--Panasonic--is a Japanese company. Most, like the United Parcel Service (UPS), are American companies looking to gain a stronger toe-hold in Japan through advertising, promotions and free services--along with putting the company name on everything they possibly can. In this time of economic crisis in East Asia, Japan especially needs to save face. Perhaps regaining economic trust is the best way to forget the scandals that have recently plagued the Hashimoto administration...
Grindlay says the telescope--four meters in diameter and 10 times stronger than the one Harvard now uses--would be used to map out the large scale structure of the universe, a project which would give scientists a "toe-hold on the whole field...
...each today seems to have found tenuous public acceptance. Out of the black box and darkroom came what may really be the vital art of the moment. Out of the spiritualist's dim salon has emerged what may prove to be tomorrow's scientific revolution. In reaching a toe-hold, each discipline has sacrificed a measure of color and excitement: gone are the horrific lantern shows of the early photographer-magicians, gone too the emphasis psychic investigators once placed on communication with disembodied spirits from the "other side." Art photography graces a hundred glossy magazines on a million polished coffee...
...Suzman says that her basic function is to keep a toe-hold in Parliament, kep the channels of information open, and try to counter the reactionary trend in South Africa. The conflict in Vietnam has taken much of the world attention and odium away from the regime in South Africa, but Mrs. Suzman hopes to keep a minimum of pressure on the government until inflation forces the Afrikaners into economic integration...
...honest, the picture may not be entirely gray. Last year we had a series of second-rate Be-Ins which could blossom into something this year. Furthermore, hippies got a toe-hold in Cambridge real-estate when James Calvert '67 bought a store-front on Mt. Auburn Street and turned it into an exotic coffee-house, restaurant called El Diablo...