Word: toeholds
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...really sure how many alpha fans there are. As the first movie-fan website to get a toehold, AICN has more traffic than the websites of established media like ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY or Variety. The top eight movie-fan websites have a total of 6 million to 8 million unique users a month. And unlike that of many news sites, which are weekday coffee-break reads, the fan sites' traffic peaks on weekends, when visitors are making decisions about what movies to see. Writer-director Kevin Smith, who has a top-rated podcast--and a Ms. Pac-Man machine!--believes fanboys...
...Qassem, however, accuses the government of being a cat's paw of the United States, seeking to marginalize Hizballah and allow Washington a Levantine toehold...
...several months later. Lots of people always gather to mark this day. Now, the anniversary coincided with mass election fraud protests. The opposition has called upon the people to come to the square en masse to protest. The authorities were scared that this "pathetic tent camp" worked as a toehold for the dozens of thousands who would show up tomorrow - and turn Minsk into a free city. So they moved to remove...
Private enterprise has gained a toehold in Yugoslavia, but to a far lesser extent than in Hungary: only 12% of GNP, vs. 25% to 30%. The Yugoslavs have been far more reticent than the Hungarians in encouraging a "second economy." Yugoslavia's socialism does not guarantee job security, and allows prices to rise at near-market rates. Thus it has been plagued by ills that can afflict free-market economies: unemployment stands at 15% and inflation at 80%. Strikes, a theoretical impossibility in a system where workers are the bosses, are on the rise...
...process again illustrated how hard it is to kill hugely expensive systems once they have established a toehold. Almost every new weapons proposal gets quick Capitol Hill approval for research and development, since this seed money is fairly small. After that, it is virtually impossible to stop, no matter how high the costs soar above original estimates. "Once a system nears the production stage it's too late," says Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen. "There's such a constituency of the Pentagon, the contractors and potential job holders that no democratically elected Congress...