In foot-in-the-door, the salesman asks for a little commitment (the foot in the door), followed by a larger commitment (the salesman squeezes through the door).

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So gaming would be the foot-in-the-door for a lot of people.

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Without the writing, no foot-in-the-door job in John F.

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The Four Seasons Resort the Biltmore Santa Barbara, in California, turned a 400-square-foot guest room into a walk-in closet for a guest who stayed in the suite next door for about four months.

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Edwin Reingold's foot-in-door account of the rise of Toyota, Japan's most successful company bar none, represents hard-scrabble reporting at its factual best.

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If something gets in the way of the door--a person's foot or a roof panel that's hanging down--the electric motor that closes the train door has to work harder and produces more current.

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On the job-seeker side, I think people would also prefer to get their foot in the door via a colleague rather than via a friend.

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Android can serve as a foot in the door for comprehensive multi-device AV plans in the future.

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The industry has been on the back foot in the face of these trends with sales - excluding door-to-door transactions - at their lowest level in a decade.

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They have seen their countries bankrupted by iron-fisted dictators who put their foot in the door of the treasury while their cronies shamelessly looted the cash.

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So after I told Ann that we could negotiate a better compensation package for her food-water-shelter offer, I asked her to tell me the top five reasons she should have one foot out the door and pointed in the direction of her 16-year-old self.

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Although how-to guides tend to overstate just how often interns (particularly at the undergraduate level) are later hired for full-time positions, the fact remains that a Wall Street internship is a huge foot in the door.

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