Word: toehold
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...their contracts expire, though it has not said when that will happen. Among the reasons for Moscow's reluctance to yank them out swiftly are fears that Saddam would retaliate by taking hostage the 9,000 Soviet citizens stuck in Iraq. The Soviets are also eager to maintain a toehold in Iraq for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the crisis...
...offering universal banking services seems to us to be limited to the national territory," says Societe Generale chairman Marc Vienot. Abroad, "we plan to find niches." One example: Societe Generale's recent purchase of the investment-management firm Touche Remnat of Britain, which will give the French bank a toehold in London, the Continent's premier financial center...
...team owes its improbable Italian sojourn to improving youth programs. Although professional soccer has never gained much more than a toehold in the U.S., some 2.5 million U.S. school kids play the game. Their fast improving ranks have stocked U.S. college squads and provided the national team with better players than ever before. Another boost for the home team: Mexico, a tough, world-class contender that vies in the same qualifying group as the U.S., was banned from competition for using ineligible players...
...clergyman in the city's withering Catholic community agrees: "I am afraid that the day will come when we will have the Christian holy places without local Christians." Church experts estimate that Jerusalem has 9,000 resident Christians, one-third of the total at Israel's founding. The toehold was further weakened last week when 150 Jews moved into homes in the traditionally Christian quarter of the Old City, touching off a raucous street protest...
...hero spy. Like a superior salesman, Baldwin displays his wares without revealing himself. Several directors have called him a chameleon, but McTiernan stresses that "Alec goes further. He gets his freedom by keeping you guessing about who he is. It's a function of his intelligence. Give him a toehold, and he'll scamper up the mountain by himself...