We must hurry before we lose our chance to help him, and establish an economic foothold in his new Soviet free-market world.

But the growth has provided little stimulus to the economy over all, and the health-care jobs often offer workers only a tenuous economic foothold.

They're too busy making a living, trying to get an economic foothold in this country.

"Clearly there are some migrants who attempt to maintain an economic foothold in Mexico," Mr. Cornelius said.

To protect its transport monopoly and prevent blacks from gaining a permanent economic foothold, the Government discouraged black taxis with a welter of daunting regulations.

The unemployment rate will go down as the private sector regains its economic foothold through effective micro financing.

Early in this century, inexperienced whites applying for factory work were given preference over blacks, creating an economic foothold denied to blacks.

Their presence, he argued at the forum, prevents blacks from establishing an economic foothold.

Since they began arriving in southwestern Queens three decades ago, immigrants from Guyana have worked hard for an economic foothold.

It has also given ordinary people an economic foothold online.