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It's easy to mistake it for that, and her critics generally do, making her a springboard for an attack on feminism in general.
On Sunday, the NYT used the Bill-Gates-pie-in-the-face incident as a springboard for a "Week in Review" thumbsucker about the history of food as a weapon.
For vacationers, this town strategically located on Lake Superior’s northwest shore is a springboard to the national parks of Ontario’s interior.
It is well recognized that the characterization of gene organization in the oriC region as well as the complete genome sequence will provide a springboard for addressing questions such as the nature of the slow growth rate of M. paratuberculosis as compared to the genetically related rapidly-growing mycobacteria.
Obviously taking her lead from Slate --see "Culturebox," "I Want My Electronic Baby Sitter!"--a NYT op-ed writer uses the recent anti-TV report by the American Academy of Pediatrics as a springboard to sing her praises to that ultimate babysitter--the one with the blue glow: "I fondly imagined my kids glazed-eyed, slack-jawed--and quiet.