They had the half-desperate look of soldiers in a convoy, advancing toward a beachhead.
In the past couple of years, e-commerce movers and shakers are capturing the beachhead.
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Tassal also sells fish in Japan and is trying to build a beachhead in Hong Kong.
Yet scrappy Sun has been able to dominate and, so far, defend a vital IT beachhead: high-speed servers.
Sodexho established a beachhead in 1985 with the purchase of a food-service provider.
With each new market the firm is establishing a beachhead for further expansion.
He is probably correct that if car batteries can interact with the power grid, that will be the first beachhead.
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So, what we're doing with the PlayStation Portable is really establishing a new marketplace, and establishing, frankly, a new beachhead.
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They will go to any lengths and twist themselves into whatever contortions they need to in order to build the beachhead.
The Crowns are buying it as a beachhead from which to launch their three-year plan to build Europe's first truly regional computer direct marketer.
In his World War II book Citizen Soldiers, Ambrose clearly acknowledges his debt to Beyond the Beachhead, which was published by Stackpole Books .
But when they finally established a beachhead deep inside Springbok territory in the 22nd minute, they showed just how dangerous an attacking threat their backs can be.
But when the French visitors managed to establish a beachhead in the Tigers' half Courrent popped over a drop-goal to ensure they only trailed 8-6 at the break.
Furthermore, eToys has only had a year or so to exploit that first-mover status while other e-tailers, notably Amazon again, had twice that time to establish a beachhead.
"Baseball decided it needed a beachhead in Washington, " Ganis said.
The Atlantic Club casino would serve as a beachhead for PokerStars to reenter the online U.S. market, which remains the single most lucrative online poker market in the world.
However, two companies that were early players in smartphones, but late to revamp their operating systems, look on, seeking to establish themselves as solid third-place entrants, at least as a beachhead.
This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough.
You need a beachhead to launch the attack.
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The payoff for Hines will be a trophy property in the heart of the rapidly redeveloping waterfront area--and a beachhead for further development in Spain, similar to ones it has established in Paris, Berlin and Moscow.
Be the general and make sure there is a clear authority in the beachhead phase with full rights and responsibility to exploit opportunities as they arise and to guide the business through to the break-even point.
If, however, they've hitched a ride on a catheter that's implanted into your body, then the bugs can grow a biofilm -- in short, a biological beachhead that will constantly reinfect you and is impenetrable to antibiotics.
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For this D-Day anniversary, standing shoulder to shoulder with the stumbling Gordon Brown, he spoke of "the sheer improbability of this victory, " in which American, British and Canadian forces won a beachhead in 1944 on the French coast.
Al-Jazeera admits Web use is lower in the Middle East than in the West, but now that it has established a beachhead, it is anxious to tout the benefits of advertising to what it claims is an affluent audience.
Balkoski said he had mixed feelings about the situation because Ambrose's books have done so much to interest the public in World War II books, and because Ambrose wrote the forward to a 1999 softcover edition of Beyond the Beachhead.
Among them was a note from military historian Joseph Balkoski , who said he was "very disappointed and somewhat depressed" when Citizen Soldiers came out in 1997, and he came across certain passages that relied heavily on his 1989 book Beyond the Beachhead.
One of the riflemen in my platoon, a big muscular farm boy from South Dakota, had seen, strewn on the Tarawa beachhead, a string of guts twelve feet long belonging to the marine who, only seconds before the mortar blast, had been his best buddy.
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