Word: traction
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...they pocket a hefty 5%-to-7% commission on each sale. Today that clubby world is being shaken more and more by a handful of upstarts. Internet interlopers like LendingTree, along with regional discounters like Foxtons in the Northeast and CataList Homes on the West Coast, have been gaining traction with a new scenario--one that simplifies and shortens the process for buyers and offers sellers overdue relief on the commissions they must...
...percent of your eggs in one basket and then you cry for four years,” Rivers said. “If [President Bush] wins you have no traction, action or juice. Make [Senator Kerry] earn the vote...
Here one minute and gone the next, Zipcars — the cars you can rent for a few hours at a time — are gaining traction at Harvard...
...time of war, neither party can afford to look soft on national security. In the early days of the Cold War, John F. Kennedy won by promising to be even more aggressive than Eisenhower and Nixon in pushing back Communism. To gain traction this year, Kerry will have to fight back on foreign policy. But he needs a real response; simply saying that Bush mucked things up in Iraq isn?t enough. He has to have his own plan to win the war on terror, one that shows he would fight a smarter and even more aggressive campaign against...
Their idea quickly gained traction. Of the first 20 people he and Conover contacted, 18 were overwhelmingly enthusiastic, says Miller. In February 2003 the first board convened under the administrative umbrella of the Denver Foundation. It was a group of 10 men and women, including educators, lawyers, a nurse, a social worker, a community volunteer, former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm and Colorado Republican chairman Don Bain. "As diverse as the group is," says Sandra Shreve, 62, a current board member who donates from her modest educator's pension, "we were all there with a common goal: to help our community...