Word: foothold
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Attacks on the capacities of African Americans and other minority groups are as pervasive as they are historic. Institutionalized disadvantage still circumscribes our best efforts to gain a foothold, let alone credibility, within American institutions. Professor Mansfield would trivialize the persistence of racism in this country by propagating the absurd notion that unqualified minorities are swelling the ranks of Harvard and decimating its standards as a result...
Unfortunately, however, conservatism and the Republican Party have not gotten so much as a respectable foothold here at Harvard. While at first glance this may seem strange and bizarre, one need not look further than the current leadership of the Harvard Republican Club to understand why the wildfire of conservatism has not spread to this campus...
Perhaps the biggest benefit of the devaluation is the opportunity for large- scale U.S. investors to establish a cheap foothold in the Mexican economy. That, however, has little effect on ordinary Americans. For the moment, the issue is being ignored by Washington as the city adjusts to new political realities there. But once the Republicans settle in, they could realize the political gold mine offered by Mexico's potential drain on the U.S. That could force Clinton to take his cue from the Mexican Finance Minister and plead forgiveness, on bended knee, before American voters next year...
...their courses. Either the immune system fought them off and the patient survived or the battle was lost. But antibiotics changed the contest radically: they selectively killed bacteria without harming the body's cells. For the first time, potentially lethal infections could be stopped before they got a foothold...
...morning of June 6, Eisenhower carried in his wallet another message he had written, to be issued only if the Allies failed to gain a foothold in France. "My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available," it read. "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone." For several hours after the landings began, some of the commanders feared that statement might have to be released...