Word: toeholds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...market-and- genius cultism of the '80s! He defined art -- his own and others' -- by negations. He took to an extreme the sphinx's riddle of early Modernism, the question that leads an artist along the edge of the drop where the aesthetic impulse no longer has a toehold in common experience: How much can I jettison before this painting, this sculpture, ceases to be painting or sculpture, before its essence is lost along with its attributes...
...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...