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22 Both unions established a foothold in the industry because they represented strategic workers in the apparel production process: the skilled cutter working inside manufacturers’ plants.
Nothing has had a greater impact on the Costa Blanca than foreign invasion: Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, and Moors had moulded Spain’s Mediterranean shores centuries before international tourism gained a foothold.
In addition to becoming a center of Western trade, Nagasaki provided a firm foothold in Japan for the Catholic Church — today much revived after 250 years of brutal suppression under the Tokugawa shoguns.
After all, both Parvez and the call girl Bettina are playing by capitalism's rules, trying to get a foothold in a society that closely guards access to its more "proper" ladders to the top.
Plausible chronicling, laced with a dose of mythology, begins with the arrival of Korean scribes at the Japanese court around a.d. 400, at a time when Japan also had a military foothold in southern Korea.