"Genetics gives us a huge, powerful foothold into understanding how people get sick and what you can do about it," says Gil McVean, professor of statistical genetics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Where are people most searching for World of Tanks, a game that doesn't have that huge a foothold here in the States?
In 1898 the United States won the Spanish-American War and reaped huge rewards: imperialist footholds in Latin America and Asia and international recognition as a military and commercial superpower.
Not only would buying AirTouch give Vodafone a foothold in the huge, if chaotic, American mobile market, but the fit between the two firms' European businesses was near-perfect, with overlap only in Germany.
In April last year, the Chinese government allowed Embraer to start assembling executive jets in China, giving the company a foothold in the huge market where its future had been in doubt.
If the virus gains a new foothold elsewhere, a huge effort would be needed to prevent a second firestorm, Osterholm says even if that means diverting some resources from West Africa.
Analysts say global corporations seeking a foothold in this potentially huge market have begun to notice CCTV, whose audience is vastly larger than every major television network in the United States and Europe combined.
Hedging its huge mainland reliance with a planned $5 billion foothold in Vietnam and existing plants in Mexico, Hungary and Brazil.
While the news is unlikely to shake strategic thinking among the country's top-tier institutions -- currently enjoying record selectivity and runaway status in world reputation rankings -- it could serve as a huge hint to universities seeking a competitive foothold in the higher education sector, particularly smaller private colleges and middling state public education systems.
But the move is also huge for EDS, which now gains a substantial foothold in the B2B e-commerce arena.
