If labor succeeds in organizing Amazon's workers - some labor experts say it is a long shot - it would be labor's biggest foothold in high-technology America.

And the fearsome competition is expected only to intensify when commercial banks gain a bigger foothold in the securities industry as the rules on underwriting are loosened later this year.

The agreement, the subject of negotiations for several months, will give Toyota a bigger foothold in the American market and increase its production capacity in the United States.

Nothing seems to draw companies into cross-border deals more than the prospect of gaining a big foothold, overnight, in another market.

Alcan said the acquisition would give it a bigger foothold in Eastern Europe and Asia.

Fiat, which is experiencing a slowdown in European sales, was thought to be seeking a way of carving a bigger foothold in the United States automotive market.

The STC unit would give Toronto-based Northern Telecom, with operations now largely in North America, a big foothold in Europe.

Marcus Hook is not central to the company's current strategy, as Bayway was when Tosco was seeking a big foothold as a refiner in the Northeast.

Either they're going to emerge with a bigger foothold in Republican politics, or they're going to be found wanting.

They say BA already dominates at Heathrow and the takeover gives it a big foothold at Gatwick as well.