For many entrepreneurs, however, business school is a launching pad.
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That's what I want this to be: a launching pad.
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It's also seen as a launching pad for higher office.
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The office is also a favored launching pad for Republicans.
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The new generation is using that work as a launching pad.
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Plus, this game has been a launching pad, as it is.
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"It's been a real launching pad for whites," Galifianakis says straight-faced.
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It's not a defined policy yet, just a launching pad for discussion.
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Now he sees that environment as a sort of a launching pad.
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So it's been a launching pad for statewide candidates in the past.
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It is also a launching pad for overcoming Chinese and Russian hegemony.
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Its success as a launching pad had flagged in recent years, however.
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His campaign sees that state as a "launching pad" to Super Tuesday success.
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It's one heck of a launching pad, with a grand prize of $100,000.
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India's version of events is that its strike attacked a terrorist launching pad.
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Like, for example, Startup Battlefield — humanity's best launching pad for early-stage startups.
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Nazis from using the strategic North African port as launching pad for their
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But this question can also be a launching pad for other conversation topics.
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Our move to Ecuador became the launching pad for an amazing life adventure.
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The event is seen as a launching pad for the industry's award season.
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That was not enough of a launching pad to actually win the nomination.
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KDFA has always been a launching pad for contemporary choreographers and significant dance works.
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That's because Africa has served as China's economic launching pad for over two decades.
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CES has historically been the launching pad for notable advances in the television industry.
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We decided we would use that opportunity as a launching pad for our company.
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It was like a launching pad, because I thought, What else could I make ?
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And once again, the ground of disagreement quickly became a launching pad for disparagement.
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But then toward the end of 2015, SpaceX landed its rocket on a launching pad.
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The Dana Carvey Show served as the launching pad for some of comedy's biggest talents.
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Already, Late Night With Seth Meyers has proved to be a launching pad for women.
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This was fire, the clear launching pad for Ambrose to become the company's top heel.
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People aren't looking at it as a launching pad—it was a destination in itself.
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It gives you a launching pad where people can go to learn all about you.
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In addition, the Opinion page is a launching pad for persuasive and argumentative writing tasks.
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Second, urge North Korea to dismantle Tongchang-ri missile-engine test site and launching pad.
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Deftones used the sound as a launching pad for the most creative career in nu metal.
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Barcelona served as the launching pad for several 5G handsets, set to arrive later this year.
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The Zelensky phone call has since become the launching pad for Democrats in their impeachment inquiry.
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It was also a launching pad of opportunity for the owners of these spaces, the entrepreneurs.
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The Alley is a regular launching pad for American theater's most promising new plays and playwrights.
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"Africa has served as a launching pad for Chinese ... companies to gain overseas experience," he adds.
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Iraq's government has denied that the country was used as a launching pad for the attacks.
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I told her that I hoped this could be a launching pad for her to keep working.
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So which young actors will use the film as a launching pad for a huge Hollywood career?
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He&aposd finally been recognized as a solo talent, and his career had found a launching pad.
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But the Versace deal provides it with a launching pad to a more exclusive European luxury market.
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For some artists, these creative poster design commissions have been an essential launching pad to other gigs.
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Top foreign policy jobs can be a great launching pad for politicians to build up public support.
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It's the premier launching pad for startups, as Battlefield alumni — like Mint, Dropbox, Yammer and TripIt — can attest.
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It triggered a wave of protests and served as the launching pad for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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People said, oh yeah, she wrote that speech as a launching pad for what she wants to do.
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While Walker may not be a household name, the RSC chairmanship has served as a political launching pad.
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Democrats must instead turn McConnell's political stunt into a launching pad for real climate dialogue, debate and action.
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"[P]ressures on traditional retailers will only get worse," and Prime Day could be the perfect launching pad.
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She said the Marrakesh meeting could be a "launching pad for initiatives and concrete applications" of the agreement.
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The office is seen as a public ombudsman but largely serves as a launching pad for higher office.
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This Emmy Award winning show has been the launching pad for some of the greatest products ever sold.
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But this week, Ebenezer transformed from political venue to political launching pad when its senior pastor, the Rev.
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Schneiderman's two predecessors, Eliot Spitzer and Cuomo, both used the office as a launching pad to the governorship.
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It also became a launching pad for Kardashian West's numerous businesses, which include shapewear and beauty and fragrance lines.
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Samsung, LG, and other popular smartphone-makers use the convention as a launching pad for all their new products.
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If fully funded, this program could be the launching pad to help white oak across the central United States.
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The channel will also act as the launching pad for two new unscripted series that will debut on DirecTV.
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The Taliban have said they would not allow Afghanistan to be used as a launching pad for international attacks.
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She instead banked on New Hampshire, a libertarian-minded state, as a launching pad for her anti-interventionist ideology.
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Real-world missile launches are detected immediately by satellites that discern the infrared signature right off the launching pad.
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So in years past, the Chinese EV makers have used CES as a launching pad for their big play.
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He also joined Bain Capital, which is hardly the ideal launching pad for a quest to win over liberal activists.
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The suggested shortcuts in the gallery can serve as a launching pad of templates to adjust and add more to.
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Like Richard Nixon or The Who, Moore has a habit of using retirement as a launching pad for his comebacks.
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Occupy was also a launching pad for several people who would go on to become influential figures on the left.
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The carnival-like event, which ends on Sunday, was once seen by Hollywood's top marketers as a crucial launching pad.
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ATLANTA — The Launching Pad has been reborn, much to the dismay of R. A. Dickey and other Atlanta Braves pitchers.
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There was a widespread fear that Canada could be used as a launching pad for the English re-conquest of America.
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It's the perfect launching pad for any written idea as long as you're willing to make your final edits somewhere else.
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For years Calais has been a launching pad for migrants from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach Britain illegally.
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More than just offering stock options, the job promised a creative launching pad that I would have been foolish to ignore.
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Even some Republicans see Bass's CBC post as merely a launching pad to larger leadership roles for the five-term Californian.
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It comes at the beginning of our annual planning cycle, and we use it as a launching pad into next year.
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It recently began selling in Ulta Beauty in the U.S., which it will use as its launching pad into the region.
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Sundance has often been a better incubator and showcase for women directors than a direct launching pad into a still-indifferent industry.
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He also joined Bain Capital, which is hardly the ideal launching pad for a quest to win over liberal activists. 14. Sen.
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These and other factors give the 45th President an amazing launching pad, and issue advocates should adjust messaging and communications strategies accordingly.
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On a launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, sits the Falcon Heavy, the latest offering from SpaceX, a private space-flight firm.
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Flores, for one, is now the chairman of the 170-member conservative Republican Study Committee, often a launching pad to leadership. Rep.
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Top issues include a U.S. troop withdrawal and Taliban guarantees not to let Afghanistan become a launching pad for global terror attacks.
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In the aftermath, India launched a "surgical strike" across the Line of Control against what it described as a terrorist launching pad.
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Couple that with advances in related software, systems and tools, and enterprise uses are fast becoming the industry's most viable launching pad.
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His opinions bear the mark of a careful jurist on a court well known as a launching pad to the Supreme Court.
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Suddenly, one of the most powerful statewide jobs in the country -- and a launching pad to higher office -- was up for grabs.
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It's well served by the subway system (2, 3, B, Q) and was a great launching pad for getting into surrounding neighborhoods.
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A checking account would eventually serve as a launching pad for other financial services, including personal loans, insurance and investments, he said.
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The "Pose" star later told Insider that his hot-pink cape was the "springboard and launching pad for a very spectacular year."
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Other presidents have stepped into the role after a honeymoon period that serves as a helpful launching pad for their first 100 days.
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Lost was a launching pad for the writer-director-producer's narrative innovation or catastrophe, depending on who you ask, called the Mystery Box.
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This report, however, became a launching pad for a crusade against the taxpaying education sector that now exists under the banner of VES.
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As these technologies move from the realm of the plausible to the probable, they're finding a launching pad in the Israeli startup scene.
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From there, they enter the virtual world and walk to a small platform that becomes the launching pad for the 12-minute experience.
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The high-profile event has been both a launching pad for careers and an opportunity for embarrassment, depending on how the politician performs.
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Large numbers travel to France, often hoping to use its northern port of Calais as a launching pad from which to reach Britain.
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The delivery of the budget for the year beginning July 1 will be a launching pad for a general election due in May.
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The West Coast is not always a successful launching pad for hip-hop stardom, but it has a vital and dynamic scene nonetheless.
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Instead he took the question and decided to use it as a launching pad to re-litigate the lowest moment of his presidency.
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He called Max Good, the coach at Maine Central Institute, a private school that has been a launching pad for numerous top recruits.
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There are even two minor-league spelling bees for kids of South Asian heritage that are often a launching pad for the Bee.
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This year, as in recent years, it has become a launching pad for marketing fluff and promoting privacy practices that don't hold up.
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WASHINGTON — The intelligence could come to President Trump secretly and urgently: The North Koreans have placed another intercontinental missile on its launching pad.
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On Friday night, however, Yankee Stadium was a launching pad again, with five home runs by the Yankees and three by the Orioles.
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Since winning the election, Trump has repeatedly raised his experiences with the Doonbeg resort as a launching pad to bash the European Union.
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" Harris said "social media has become kind of a launching pad for every kind of conspiracy theory, every kind of anti-Semitic trope.
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It is also seen as a potential launching pad to higher office; Mr. de Blasio went from being public advocate to becoming mayor.
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The buzz about Ray J and his "endowments" quickly fizzled out, while Kim used it as the launching pad for her $52 million career.
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The Venice festival is considered a launching pad for the film industry's award season, having premiered Academy Award winners in its last four editions.
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I said, 'You're the only one that ever pitched down there in Atlanta, and I didn't want people getting spooked by the launching pad.
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This was certainly an interesting experiment for Snapchat, but it could even be a launching pad for future projects and development on the web.
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If Iraq's military can consolidate control of the base, it would provide a valuable launching pad for the offensive to expel ISIS from Mosul.
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Yet, our group of academic and policy experts could not agree that these state models provide a launching pad or model for federal legislation.
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However, the huge cost and time savings could at the very least be used to build a strong launching pad for traditional research methods.
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Some of those GOP sources also said the Senate would be a much better launching pad if she ever decides to run for president.
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Living at home can be a good launching pad, but he says it comes with a potential consequence: becoming too dependent on your parents.
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The covert program is known as "left of launch," since the cyberattacks begin before missiles reach the launching pad, or as they blast off.
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"Our strategy since the summer is to use Iowa as a launching pad," a source close to the Buttigieg campaign told CNN before Iowa.
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The Taliban would also pledge not to allow international terror groups to use Afghanistan as a launching pad for attacks against the United States.
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Xiaofeng Wang, senior analyst at Forrester, said Singapore's westernised and affluent consumer base made Singapore an obvious launching pad for Amazon's ambitions in the region.
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At this point, Fortnite seems like a launching pad for experiences that go well beyond battle royale, even as that mode remains the main draw.
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They were concerned that it represented a challenge to sovereignty and would make the Philippines a launching pad for U.S. military intervention in the region.
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Democrats, on the other hand, see the Kansas special election as a launching pad for the more winnable seat in Georgia in seven days time.
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The program serves as a launching pad for companies looking to do business in the European Union (EU) and benefit from the EU's single market.
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Kellogg used the deal as a launching pad for its snack platform, adding chip company Pringles in 2012, in a deal valued at $2.7 billion.
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Al-Qaeda and ISIS would be allowed to flourish, and you'd have a terrorist launching pad similar to, or potentially worse than, before 9/11.
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His acquisition in 2014 of Shanghai Golden Monkey Food Joint Stock in China — meant to be its launching pad into the region — was a disappointment.
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Cover: North Korea's intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 lifting off from the launching pad at an undisclosed location near Pyongyang in August 2017.
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Startup Battlefield is one of the tech industry's leading startup pitch competitions and, without a doubt, it's the best launching pad for early-stage startups.
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Once a launching pad to instant stardom for the young and relentless, tennis — for men and women — has become more of an adult-themed province.
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Instead, the images showed the opposite: evidence that North Korea was completing work on an extensive building complex next to the launching pad at Sohae.
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Bites At Turkey and the Wolf, standard lunchbox fare is just a launching pad for the high-flying imaginings of a merry band of inventors.
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Even now, well into the 21st century, it seems safe to say there is no office building in Manhattan with a rooftop rocket-launching pad.
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The American military bases in Guam would serve as a major launching pad for United States reinforcements should war break out on the Korean Peninsula.
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" Porter said Rahm&aposs piece not only made a statement on the carpet, it was the "springboard and launching pad for a very spectacular year.
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Sure. But now, the 20-year-old is using his debut album, MUDBOY, as a launching pad from a life of scarcity to one of abundance.
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"Basically, I wanted to be a launching pad for people's dreams, their desires, their passions, maybe their careers," he says in a video about the initiative.
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"It (Gaza) can tranform also as a launching pad for extremism and for terrorism ... That's why we need to put an end to this," he said.
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That bench has been a launching pad to the Supreme Court, including for Chief Justice John Roberts and justices Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas.
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His privilege even allows him to turn a loss to the most despised candidate of the cycle into a launching pad for a White House run.
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But the Trump administration chose not to take out the missile on the launching pad, even though they saw it being fueled up a day ago.
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Qatar is home to the largest American military base in the region and remains the launching pad for U.S. Central Command operations from Egypt through Afghanistan.
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The handbag maker is acquiring the Gianni Versace fashion house for $2.1 billion, including debt, providing Kors a launching pad into the exclusive European luxury market.
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In the aftermath, India launched what it described as a "surgical strike" across the Line of Control to attack what it described as a terrorist launching pad.
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Ryan's gambit is unusual because most leadership challenges come from members using another party position or a top slot on a key committee as a launching pad.
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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump plans to kick off his California primary campaign in Burlingame on Friday, using the California Republican Convention as the launching pad.
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A cheaper version of the once revolutionary laptop is said to be coming at some point this year, and WWDC could be just the right launching pad.
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In its earnings release, Netflix highlighted, as it has done for several quarters now, that its original programming acts as a launching pad for new Hollywood stars.
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In the aftermath, India launched what it described as a "surgical strike" across the Line of Control to attack what it said was a terrorist launching pad.
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We originally postulated that Abilify MyCite would serve as a launching pad for other pharma firms to create digital medication for other conditions with low medication adherence.
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Given the way it has served as both a launching pad and a crash-landing site for Republican presidential prospects, immigration was strangely absent from Monday's debate.
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The first developer preview of 9.0 dropped in March of this year, and I/O is likely to be the launching pad of the next big one.
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Mr. Tillerson said such questions could turn on the facts, including whether such a weapon was stored in a bunker or was sitting on a launching pad.
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"The graduation show is an incredible launching pad for students," said Tracy Steepy, head of the Jewelry and Metalsmithing Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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On the wooded slope above the driveway, weeds choke a concrete platform with an angled gutter in the middle — the launching pad for the experimental mortar range.
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House Republicans later used Starr's recommendations as the launching pad to pass two articles of impeachment against Clinton, though the president was ultimately acquitted in the Senate.
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Greene insists that she's not using her candidacy as DNC chair as a launching pad for future roles, a frequent charge for lesser-known DNC chair hopefuls.
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"Using that position as a launching pad for higher political ambition by opposing Trump is going to be an irresistible opportunity for some Democratic lawyer," he said.
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But screen time at the Grammys and Super Bowl works as a launching pad — free advertising, basically — for more lucrative parts of the music business, namely touring.
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The shortform app finally reached over a billion active users worldwide and, in the US, it provided a launching pad for the biggest song of the year.
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The office is widely viewed as a launching pad for politicians with designs on Gracie Mansion, and the public advocate is first in line to succeed the mayor.
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There's no better launching pad than Startup Battlefield, and the next battle goes down at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 — in the city that gave birth to startup dreams.
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The mayoralty of San Francisco has proved a launching pad for ambitious politicians, boosting Dianne Feinstein to the Senate and Gavin Newsom to favourite in the governor's race.
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It still made a ton of money because human beings will always feel childlike wonder for huge dinosaurs, and thereby served as a launching pad for Trevorrow's career.
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During the 90s, Love was not only a launching pad for many East Coast skaters' careers, but a microcosm of the shift in the skate industry from California.
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We forgo the desire of our historic allies that we use the Security Council as a launching pad for hard nosed, sustained, and direct diplomatic engagement with Iran.
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Doria's victory in Sao Paulo, a traditional launching pad for national office, will bolster a likely bid in 2018 by the PSDB governor of the state, Geraldo Alckmin.
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Despite the bounce, the motion transfer is minimal so you don't have to worry about spilling your popcorn when someone starts using the couch as a launching pad.
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Top issues in the talks have included a U.S. troop withdrawal and Taliban guarantees they would not allow Afghanistan to become a launching pad for global terror attacks.
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"One of them targeted a car carrying a rocket launching pad from which Daesh (Islamic State) was targeting counterterrorism positions in liberated areas," he said over the phone.
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But for those with technical savvy, Android's open source code has served as a launching pad for forks, or tweaks based on the original code, for custom firmware.
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But as president, he ultimately accepted his advisers' argument that a "big military" approach was needed to prevent the country from becoming a launching pad for terrorism again.
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The looping 6-second videos that the app pioneered became a launching pad for comedians and musicians while also introducing countless priceless phrases and memes into the culture.
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If Oakland seemed an improbable launching pad for political reinvention, Colusa is in some ways an equally counterintuitive place for Mr. Brown to seek, and to build, community.
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The city is best known as Bruce Springsteen's launching pad, but through the years it has attracted acts as diverse as Ella Fitzgerald, the Rolling Stones and Van Halen.
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Australia was the perfect launching pad for a new securities settlement platform based on so-called "distributed ledger technology", or blockchain, Masters said at a business forum in Sydney.
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This period of time coincided with the 210s' dot-com bubble, and Buenos Aires became a launching pad for some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country's history.
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That sort of sly rebranding takes some of the heavy lifting off the "mobile" bit for what has come to be regarded as the world's premier smartphone launching pad.
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This is particularly the case with coastal flooding, since sea level rise is providing storms with a higher launching pad for floods than was the case in previous years.
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"We're also thrilled that Netflix has been a launching pad for a new generation of global stars," said Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in a statement to investors, per Deadline.
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While it was not critically acclaimed -- save for some Teen Choice Awards -- the series acted as a launching pad for actors like Blake Lively, Leighton Meester and Penn Badgley.
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DOHA (Reuters) - Palestinian infighting and years of an Israeli blockade could turn the impoverished Gaza Strip into an easy "launching pad" for Islamic State recruiters, Qatar's foreign minister says.
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Any list begins with Sri Srinivasan, 48, a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- a traditional launching pad for Supreme Court nominees.
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It has served as a launching pad for other Supreme Court justices in addition to Kavanaugh, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia.
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Additionally, the connections you make and maintain in the world serve as a kind of social launching pad for the products and platforms you use on a daily basis.
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Officials have said the country hopes to establish a lunar base that could provide natural resources for the Earth but also serve as a launching pad for further exploration.
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That means that for about $76 per night, you can relax at the hotel's rooftop pool or use the property as a launching pad for exploring the Mexican capital.
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The business plan is all-important because it's a launching pad of sorts for executives to assess and gauge whether the candidate could see real success at the firm.
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The details of enforcing the Taliban's pledge to prevent international terrorists such as Al Qaeda from using Afghan soil as a launching pad for attacks again also remained unclear.
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The post was a launching pad for Harris, who parlayed her high profile role into a Senate seat this fall and has been a rising star within the Democratic Party.
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He had been very insecure in power, because he was new in his career, and so he really used it as a launching pad to help build his bureaucratic empire.
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"Sanders envisioned his candidacy as a launching pad for nothing short of a revolution within the Democratic Party," said Jeffrey Berry, a professor of political science at nearby Tufts University.
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In addition to being a homecoming for a whole lot of superhero wannabes, the annual Comic-Con International served as the launching pad for a wide range of upcoming movies.
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E-girls have risen into the mainstream in 2019 thanks to TikTok, the short-form video app known as a launching pad for Gen Z's favorite memes and viral trends.
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His selection to the All-Star team and continuing to play at a high level could be an ideal launching pad for the perfect baseball creation in today's sports ecosystem.
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For Johnson, neither the front office nor the bench proved to be a winning or even comfortable habitat like the hardwood he used as a launching pad to basketball immortality.
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It's a "launching pad," not a "firewall," Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to Biden, told POLITICO as she got her hair shaved in Toliver's Mane Event barber shop in Columbia.
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But even as one of Mr. Biden's senior advisers describe South Carolina and black voters as his "launching pad," there are signs his position may be more precarious than Mrs.
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If swagger was Ocean releasing Endless at the end of almost three weeks of video-streaming, sway is using that as the launching pad to establish his own record label.
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Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 proves this beyond doubt as it has since become little more than a launching pad for rocket attacks into the rest of the country.
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Brick-and-mortar retail is both another potential money sink and also a possible launching pad for Amazon Now services, which are obviously going to require some kind of logistical infrastructure.
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FROM COINAGE: The Most Expensive TV Shows of All Time You actually got started in the reality pageant competition Nuestra Belleza Latina, do you feel that experience was a launching pad?
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The remembrance of those who fell in service to the country is used here by Trump as simply a launching pad to tout accomplishments during his first 16 months in office.
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The site is important because the North has test-fired powerful rocket engines there on a giant experiment stand and, at the nearby launching pad, successfully cast two satellites into space.
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The BBC is one of the biggest commissioners of content in the world and an important global launching pad for seminal shows and creators from Dr. Who to Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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All of this adds up to the fact that Monday's Iowa results are very likely to prove that the state is more than a launching pad when it comes to elections.
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It also served as a launching pad for the careers of subsequent designers, such as Phillip Lim and Band of Outsiders, that took part in the second edition of the project.
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While Clark is the first to officially announce, she's not the only member expected to seek the vice-chair job, which traditionally has been a launching pad for higher leadership ambitions.
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Some strategists say Scott won't hesitate to dip into his fortune again to topple Nelson, especially since Scott could use the Senate as a launching pad for a potential presidential bid.
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Shanghai Golden Monkey Food Joint Stock in China, meant to be a launching pad for Hershey in the region, faltered when the founder left early on and the chocolate market dipped.
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The university is probably best known as the launching pad for the sit-in movement, after the "A&T Four" walked from campus to a Woolworth's in downtown Greensboro and demanded service.
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The network also served as a launching pad for some hoping to enter politics, particularly current Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who joined the network as a contributor in 2013.
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But in publicity terms, it is invaluable to be known—as Venice is now—for being the launching pad for the winners of the Academy Awards, the Baftas and the Golden Globes.
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After George W. Bush made the "Texas miracle" of improved schools a launching pad for the presidency, many Democrats swallowed his bogus claim that testing students every year had produced amazing results.
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The $22016 million seed round, which the company just closed, will serve as a launching pad to get to market its novel radar technology, based on the concept of a Luneburg antenna.
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The sky over launching pad 39-A, where the Times correspondent John Noble Wilford noted "the salt air of the sea mingles with the fragrance of orange blossoms," was a clear blue.
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Medicaid covers more enrollees (553 million), but the universal nature of Medicare—everyone over 65 gets it, or 55 million people—makes it a more attractive launching pad for single-payer enthusiasts.
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Islamist militants based in Mali, to the north, have regrouped since a French intervention in 2013 and now use it as a launching pad for attacks on Burkina Faso and neighboring Niger.
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But Mr. Stewart will soon be vacating his seat in the chamber debating that deal to seek a job that, for all its success as a political launching pad, has limited powers.
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Thomas L. Friedman Agadez, NIGER — It's Monday and that means it's moving day in Agadez, the northern Niger desert crossroad that is the main launching pad for migrants out of West Africa.
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Under Google, YouTube went from being a repository of amateur video to a powerhouse of original content, not to mention a launching pad for its own new brand of superstar, like PewDiePie.
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Bakkt appears to be more of a launching pad for regulated financial instruments involving bitcoin with the goal of smoothing out its rapid price fluctuations and, in the long run, replacing credit cards.
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Her academic pedigree provided the launching pad to write an influential textbook; that, in turn, gave her the star power to strike out on her own as one of the first web celebrities.
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Deutsche Bank's existential troubles date back to its acquisition in 1999 of Bankers Trust, an American investment bank, which served as the launching pad for its ill-fated foray into international investment banking.
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If Rubio is indeed returning to the Senate because he thinks it is the best launching pad for a presidential campaign, he will probably show up to work more often—for a bit.
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Yet the town and its film festival serve an important role in global cinema: the KVIFF is a launching pad for Central and Eastern European films to reach the rest of the world.
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But by Thursday morning, technicians had apparently resolved the problem, and the unmanned Soyuz rocket carrying three satellites blasted off from the launching pad, according to the Russian space agency and the Kremlin.
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Her hiring would be another sign of the symbiosis between the Trump administration and Fox News, a launching pad for current White House officials and a place to land for those who leave.
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In the end, these officials said, Mr. Trump accepted the logic that a "big military" approach was needed to prevent Afghanistan from again becoming a launching pad for terrorism against the United States.
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The new park is playing more like the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, the Braves' first home in Atlanta which was known as The Launching Pad because it was a haven for homers.
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Andrea and Jessica view their franchise as a launching pad that will open doors to other opportunities, whether it's expanding to more locations, opening a new restaurant or even buying a food truck.
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True to its name, American would greatly expand its network in two key cities, Washington and Philadelphia, with the latter becoming American's East Coast launching pad and connecting point for flights to Europe.
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It is no wonder, then, that Sweden has become the launching pad for global tech giants like Spotify, the music-streaming service, and King Digital, the mobile gaming company behind the Candy Crush franchise.
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Mitzi's Comedy Store was the launching pad for some of the biggest comics in the world, including Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jim Carrey, Chris Rock, Arsenio Hall and Roseanne Barr.
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Dan Senor, a friend of Mr. Ryan's who advised him during the 2012 White House race, said he was skeptical that the speaker would try to use the House as a presidential launching pad.
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It had long been feared that the disease might take root in Goma, and that the city would serve as a launching pad to send cases both to regional neighbors and potentially further afield.
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"Before I met her, I was in a snotty, sort of slacker Largo scene," he said, referring to the Los Angeles club that became a major launching pad of comedy talent in the 1990s.
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Falluja was seen as a launching pad for recent Islamic State bombings in and around the capital, and the military campaign was aimed in large part at denying the militants a safe haven nearby.
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The rule of thumb I used was: Did this artist use New York or the idea of New York—which is the central character of the book—as a launching pad in some way?
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The Samsung Developer Conference happening this week in San Francisco isn't likely to be a major launching pad for consumer electronics, but the company is expected to offer a glimpse into what's to come.
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On Friday, as Ms. Grissom was helped off the old launching pad, professional and amateur stargazers pointed out the International Space Station passing in the sky above, along with Venus and a shooting star.
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Warren didn't comment on the claims, but instead used the viral momentum as a launching pad to reaffirm her push for canceling student loan debt and tweeted an image of her alma mater's mascot.
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"We need more disabled writers sharing their words and entering the journalism world, so it is my hope that this fellowship will serve as a launching pad for more authentic disability representation," she says.
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It is certainly true that the Senate probably is a better launching pad for a presidential campaign whenever Cotton decides to run — George H.W. Bush is the only CIA director to reach the White House.
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Mr Erdogan argues that an emboldened YPG plans to use the Syrian borderlands in the same way as the PKK has used the mountains of northern Iraq: as a launching pad for attacks against Turkey.
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The Musudan is the North's only intermediate-range ballistic missile able to reach United States military bases in Guam, a major launching pad for American reinforcements should a war break out on the Korean Peninsula.
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Typically, small caps on the launching pad or even taking off receive little or no touting from Wall Street, whose sell-side analyst ranks are thinning because of investment flows from active to passive management.
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But recognizing the persistent threads in principle give way for a launching pad in common ground, revealing that you and your neighbor voting for different candidates is merely a product of a two-party system.
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In return, the Taliban would guarantee that Afghanistan would not be a launching pad for global terror attacks by groups including a local affiliate of the Islamic State organization and the remains of al-Qaida.
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The broad outlines of the deal would see U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan in exchange for Taliban assurances not to allow the country to become a launching pad for terrorist attacks against the United States.
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FringeNYC has a number of notable alumni, including Mindy Kaling, Diane Paulus and the Broadway musical "Urinetown," but it hasn't been as much of a launching pad for emerging artists as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) argued the Senate is still a decent launching pad, considering that the final two viable candidates are Bernie Sanders, a current senator, and former Vice President Joe Biden, an ex-senator.
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French forces intervened in 2013 to drive back Islamist fighters after they seized Mali's desert north a year earlier, citing concern that the area could become a launching pad for attacks on targets in Europe.
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Hillary Clinton's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen – while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West.
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Zaneilia Harris, a CFP and president of Harris and Harris Wealth Management in the Washington metro area, likes to think of December as a launching pad that will allow you to get focused in 2020.
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A draft agreement from September involved a significant reduction in U.S. troops in exchange for guarantees that Afghanistan would not be used as a launching pad for militant operations against the U.S. or its allies.
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Liberal new media Salon — Salon was one of the early pioneers of online news, and the staunchly progressive site has a reputation as a launching pad for respected lefty voices like Glenn Greenwald and Joan Walsh.
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It's a movie about King Arthur fighting alongside giant robots, a post-apocalyptic drama, a 1980s action kids movie, an unintentional Wahlbergian comedy, and of course, it's also the launching pad for the Transformers extended universe.
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North Korea's intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 lifting off from the launching pad at an undisclosed location near Pyongyang It's unclear whether other, similar incidents have taken place, but remain unknown to the public.
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Bullen may have long since moved on from Napalm Death but as Universal Detention Centre showed Scum remains an essential part of his DNA and was the launching pad to a long and varied artistic career.
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Trump has already deployed an additional 5,200 troops to the border in attempts to thwart asylum-seeking migrants from entering the country, and has used the caravan as a launching pad for riling up his base.
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After launching, the B.F.R. booster would return to the launching pad; the spaceship would continue to orbit, where it would refill its tanks of methane and oxygen propellant before embarking on the monthslong journey to Mars.
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The site has also regularly served as a launching pad for major new acts, like the rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, who dominated YouTube's internal charts for months before landing a No. 1 album this fall.
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This is also an opportunity for governors, mayors, and state and local lawmakers to craft responses that both lessen the damage and provide a launching pad for better, fairer fiscal policies that win broad popular support.
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If Harris didn't file the appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals before the 45-day window closed, Aviram believed the decision by Judge Carney would become a launching pad to end the death penalty.
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In the past year and a half, Trump has gotten a number of state supreme court justices on his list confirmed to seats on the federal appeals courts, a common launching pad for future Supreme Court justices.
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I would prefer Apple and Tidal succeed on the strength of their software As for Spotify, it seems that the ad-supported services have been a great launching pad to move users up to the paid tier.
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Past audience winners and runners-up in Toronto have gone on to win or become best-picture Oscar nominees, solidifying the Toronto festival's reputation as a launching pad for films that go on to receive critical acclaim.
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Now on at Londons' Pump House Gallery, the multimedia exhibition uses Greene's novel as a launching pad to consider themes such as political voice and agency, the individual inside bureaucratic structures, as well as labor and language.
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Unofficial results in municipal elections over the weekend show that Mr. Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party lost control of Ankara, the capital, and Istanbul, the financial center and launching pad for Mr. Erdogan's political career.
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Within the tech community, the festival has traditionally served as a launching pad for hyped startups and a brand orgy for large companies that want some of Silicon Valley's luster to rub off on their own businesses.
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North Carolina's role is special in that it was used as a launching pad for planes dispatched to pick up suspected terrorists and transport them to or among black sites, where they were indefinitely detained and tortured.
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When she graduated from high school she moved to Melbourne, where she was cast on the nightly soap Neighbours, which, along with Home and Away, has served as a launching pad for almost every major Australian actor.
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The first time I heard that term was in New York, from a New York Times editor; that point was meant to be a launching pad for a self-critical discussion on how Western journalists cover Africa.
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It also held strategic value: If the North Vietnamese captured it, the hill could have served as a launching pad for strikes on the key American staging area at Dong Ha. It held a symbolic value, too.
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Though she can't reveal too much (saying that a spread in Japanese Vogue was the launching pad for the yet-to-be-revealed collection), she did explain why she's so happy to be partnered with the lingerie brand.
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A glaring flaw in that strategy is that since the Iowa caucuses became the primary-season launching pad in 1972, no candidate has been elected president without finishing in the top two in either Iowa or New Hampshire.
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The giant redwood trees cast shade—the coolness they help create was one of the reasons he thought the land would work for Pinot Noir—and make the place feel more like a retreat than a launching pad.
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Danielle, Rob, and myself huddled around some microphones to use Danika's piece as a launching pad for a broader discussion about how games use villains, prompting us to discuss everything from BioShock Infinite to Resident Evil: Code Veronica.
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If this weekend's protests are to be successful, they must be a launching pad for the party to start a long-term process of fighting against what is looking like a radically conservative administration and of rebuilding their party.
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NH would be a "launching pad" for an aggressive expansion, Minor International Chief Operating Officer Dillip Rajakarier told Reuters, adding the company was still looking for targets of up to $231.8800 million in locations like London, Prague and Rome.
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While the skilled trades workers who maintain plant machinery are a fraction of the hourly workforce, VW bargaining with them could serve as a launching pad for the union's efforts to organize other foreign-owned plants in the South.
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French forces intervened in 2013 to drive back Islamist fighters that hijacked the Tuareg uprising to seize Mali's desert north a year earlier, citing concern that the area could become a launching pad for attacks on targets in Europe.
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The category has long been a launching pad for little-known gems to reach a wider audience, and there have been several times when buzzy films were nominated in both the Best Foreign Language Film and Best Picture categories.
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A Western intelligence source told Reuters that U.S. and British special forces are expanding the Tanf base to use it as a major launching pad for operations in coming months to oust militants from Bukamal, a major militant stronghold.
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The sporadic rocket fire that's hit Israel from there since its pullback has strengthened Israeli hawks' political position, as they have long argued that any Palestinian state would end up serving as a launching pad for attacks on Israel.
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Standard lunchbox fare is just a launching pad for the high-flying imaginings of Mr. Hereford and his team, a merry band of inventors whose professional cooking chops are on view in the crowded but supremely orderly open kitchen.
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The job of New York attorney general, with oversight over everything from Wall Street to Albany corruption, has long been a political launching pad, as it was for Mr. Cuomo and Eliot Spitzer, the state's last two elected governors.
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The job of New York attorney general over the past two decades has proved to be a launching pad for aspiring politicians who used their legal authority to go after Wall Street hucksters, corrupt politicians and real estate scofflaws.
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Amidst all the hate Starr and her community receive, their genuine love for one another imbues this novel with hope — and it inspires me to see how Starr uses that love as a launching pad to engage in meaningful activism.
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In the 1990s and early 2000s, jihadi groups such as Ansar al-Islam -- the previous incarnation of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and so called Islamic State -- also used Iranian territory as a launching pad for terrorist attacks in neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan.
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U.S. companies have $588 billion dollars invested in the UK. That represents 23 percent of U.S. corporate investment in the EU. Now the UK is likely to see its position diminish as a favored launching pad to enter the European market.
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For me and countless others, writing for the LA Weekly wasn't just a dream job or a professional launching pad, but a civic duty that gave us unparalleled access to just about anything and anyone we could think to write about.
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Though most of the attention will now be on Mr. Vaccarello's plans for the Saint Laurent label, his ascension further bolsters Ms. Versace's position as something of a talent spotter and Versus as a potent launching pad for other designers.
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Some people have speculated that should the president implode before 2020, Ms. Haley's organization could act as a launching pad that would allow her to jump into the race at the last minute — and if not then, certainly in 2024.
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We hope that making this Index available will lead to further in-depth study of primary sources, and serve as an enduring launching pad for the study of the historical and cultural significance of Jewish art for many years to come.
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If she wins in November, a special election would then be held to replace her as New York City public advocate — a position that has served as a potent launching pad for Ms. James and her predecessor, Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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That's a monumental task; Weinstein's infamy as both a Hollywood power broker and a launching pad for the #MeToo movement means that many potential jurors have already heard about the case — and formed their own conclusions about his guilt or innocence.
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Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit, a conservative known as a difficult boss but whose chambers were a launching pad for a Supreme Court clerkship, had an opening for a clerk and turned to Professor Priest, a friend, for suggestions.
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Those who follow Victoria's Secret closely know that Pink is frequently the launching pad for up-and-coming models who want to go from sweet to sexy superstar, and that's abundantly clear looking at these throwback photos of some of your faves.
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But even if Winterfell falls, there's a lot of Westeros to retreat to — lots of places where they can stage a defensive stand or use as a launching pad for a raid to destroy the White Walkers and thus the entire army.
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RELATED: For the next Justice, Americans want a nominee and a hearing, CNN/ORC poll finds Srinivasan, an Indian-American, is a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- a traditional launching pad for Supreme Court nominees.
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But the road-mobile Musudan is the North's only intermediate-range ballistic missile with a range long enough to reach United States military bases in Guam, a major launching pad for American reinforcements should a war break out on the Korean Peninsula.
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Only after Hamas overthrew the Palestinian Authority in 2007 and started using Gaza as a launching pad for terror attacks against Israeli civilians did Israel begin to limit border access to ensure that only aid truly intended for humanitarian purposes entered the territory.
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The Nusra Front has previously indicated that it does not intend to be a launching pad for terrorist attacks on the West, but instead would focus on the Syrian struggle, an approach that also has been endorsed by al Qaeda leader Zawahiri.
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You see, it's the official launching pad for Universal's "Dark Universe," a new movie franchise in the vein of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but based on famous monsters such as Creature from the Black Lagoon (2019) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TBA).
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Why it matters: Martin's death at the hand of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of all charges in Martin's shooting, became one of the most heated controversies in American society and served as the launching pad for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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And if there's any doubt it's still possible at this stage, she only needs to look over at Klobuchar, who used her performance at the Granite State debate as a launching pad for a surprisingly strong finish there a few days later.
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The deal The "framework" for a possible peace agreement that Khalilzad has negotiated is that the Taliban have agreed that they will not allow Afghanistan to be used as a launching pad for attacks by international terrorist groups such as al Qaeda.
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Five-run rally carries Brewers past D-backs MILWAUKEE — In more than a decade as the home of the Milwaukee Brewers, Miller Park has been known as a hitter's paradise, a launching pad for tape-measure home runs, especially on warm, humid summer nights.
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The timing of this whole thing was particularly unfortunate for Kushner, because Golden's book was released shortly after he bought the New York Observer, a weekly newspaper beloved by the New York City media crowd that frequently served as a launching pad for young journalists.
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What had worked for the Democratic party in 903 and 2012 wasn't going to be effective in future election cycles, so they created the investment firm Higher Ground Labs to provide financing and a launching pad for new companies serving Democratic campaigns and progressive organizations.
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The sentiment flooding my social media feeds was not one of accomplishment for having participated in the largest political demonstration of its kind, but a call to use this moment as a launching pad for what will be our collective commitment to get to work.
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Sam Gold's production of "King Lear" (at the Cort) is an act of interpretation, too, but, where Ellington and Strayhorn reimagined Shakespeare's words as music, the forty-year-old director uses them as a launching pad from which to explore his own theatrical concerns.
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For those that don't know: IMG Academy is a high school-cum-sports training center that began as a tennis academy—Andre Agassi famously trained there, as did Monica Seles and Serena Williams—and now exists as launching pad for future college and professional athletes.
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Even a limited strike — on, say, a North Korean missile on its launching pad or a missile in midair — would pose risks that the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, might retaliate, setting off a spiral of escalation that could plunge the Korean Peninsula into war.
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He turned a prayer breakfast into a launching pad for political attacks and then staged a long, rambling venting session at the White House where he denounced "evil" and "crooked" lawmakers and the "top scum" at the F.B.I. for trying to take him down.
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While the unit of skilled trades workers, who maintain the assembly machinery, are a fraction of the hourly work force, bargaining by VW with them could serve as a launching pad for the union's efforts to organize other foreign-owned plants in the South.
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In an interview with the Associated Press early on in his campaign, George P. said he'd decided to run for the semi-obscure office because it best suited his skill set — not out of any particular desire to use it as a launching pad.
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We got the CNN host at Chelsea Studios in NYC Tuesday and asked who he thinks is stepping up the most for the cause ... he points to Meek Mill, calling him a "massive hero" for using his own case as a launching pad to help others.
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The space centre is the main launching pad for the European Space Agency, owing to Guiana's location close to the equator (to take advantage of the earth's spin) and by an ocean (to reduce the chances that a botched launch will rain debris on people's heads).
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The timing of this whole thing was particularly unfortunate for Kushner, because Golden's book was released shortly after he bought the New York Observer, a weekly newspaper that's beloved by the New York City media crowd and that's frequently served as a launching pad for young journalists.
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Vine's spiritual successor is slated to launch in 2019, yet it already faces two immense and conflicting expectations: that it will be a launching pad for another era of huge stars, and that it'll recreate the low-key, relaxed, and goofy atmosphere that made Vine so fun.
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Equipped with bunkers for storing chemical munitions, the airfield had been built as a potential launching pad for attacks with chemical weapons — weapons that Mr. Assad was supposed to have given up as part of an agreement that was worked out by the United States and Russia.
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" Fogelman foreshadows that Kevin's change after moving next door to Uncle Nicky and making strong bonds in Bradford is "kind of the launching pad for the rest of his life" and a "chapter in Kevin's life he will look back on and maybe consider a turning point.
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Even if the extra numbers do come through, military officials acknowledged that Afghanistan's security forces were nowhere close to being able to defend the country on their own or to keep it from returning to its former status as a launching pad for terrorist attacks abroad.
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Campaign buttons emblazoned with "Vote for Benioff" and "Marc Benioff for President" circulated two years ago at Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, which draws hundreds of thousands of participants and has been viewed by some as a likely launching pad for any Benioff campaign.
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Originally, Cisneros entered into fight promotion to use it as a launching pad for the nutritional merchandise, but with all the good that has come out of SCL, he's now more fully dedicated to the fight promotion, clocking in 16-18 hours workdays between the two ventures.
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In an interview with CNN, Reid said that the race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton shows no signs of dying down, even as the former secretary of state had hoped the upcoming Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary would be her launching pad to the Democratic nomination.
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First opened in 1923, the stadium is the longtime home of the University of Southern California, but along the way has hosted two Summer Olympics and two Super Bowls (including the first one); offered refuge for the fleeing Brooklyn Dodgers; and served as a launching pad for Evel Knievel.
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Because the UK market pales in comparison to the EU as a whole, and U.S. firms — financial as well as industrial — have found the UK to be the great launching pad and favored headquarters site for the EU market as a whole, not for the relatively smaller UK market.
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I am asking the Congress to fully fund the Artemis program to ensure that the next man and the first woman on the moon will be American astronauts — using this as a launching pad to ensure that America is the first nation to plant its flag on Mars.
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Even a limited strike against a North Korean missile on its launching pad or the shooting down of a missile in midair would pose risks that the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, might retaliate, setting off a spiral of escalation that could plunge the Korean Peninsula into war.
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I am asking the Congress to fully fund the Artemis program to ensure that the next man and the first woman on the moon will be American astronauts -- using this as a launching pad to ensure that America is the first nation to plant its flag on Mars.
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I am asking Congress to fully fund the Artemis program to ensure that the next man and the first woman on the Moon will be American astronauts — (applause) — using this as a launching pad to ensure that America is the first nation to plant its flag on Mars.
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Ever since the previous system began its collapse following the 22019 conventions, the two parties have failed to develop a way that makes the process run smoothly with as much certainty in the candidate as possible and also allows the nominee the best launching pad to a November victory.
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"The U.S. wants to remain a Pacific power and is using the Philippines as a launching pad for military intervention and power projection in the region," Renato M. Reyes Jr., a leader of Bayan, a left-leaning group that opposes United States military involvement in the country, said in a statement.
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Finally, in 1997, after Clinton renominated Garland upon winning re-election in 1996, was he confirmed to a seat on the court that was a launching pad to the Supreme Court for Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas, as well as the late Antonin Scalia.
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The House Intelligence Committee's Russia probe from this past year raised the public profile of several Democrats on the panel, putting them in a strong position to use the panel as a launching pad for higher office — even more so if broader investigations are initiated under Democratic leadership next year.
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But it also includes this great chart, showing its young stars' prolific growth in Instagram followers after their Netflix launches: "We're also thrilled that Netflix has been a launching pad for a new generation of global stars like Millie Bobby Brown, Jacob Elordi, Noah Centineo and Gaten Matarazzo," Netflix writes.
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Austin, Rob, and Patrick use Patty's recent story about Red Dead Redemption 2's world and systems feeling largely meaningless as a launching pad to work out their larger feelings on open world games, from what we ask and demand of them to where they should go in the future.
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Like all those modernists before her for whom a fundamental visual language of lines, circles, squares, triangles, grids, and other "pure" geometric imagery had provided a launching pad for spiritual lift-off, Munroe felt that she had found a combination of technical methods and material forms that served her communicative purposes.
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With the iPhone 8 already in stores and the iPhone X arriving in three weeks, scammers have sprung into action, using the promise of a free phone to trick people into giving up their information or worse, often using some of the web's biggest platforms as a launching pad for the scam.
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When the line between celebrity and genuine achievement has been nearly obliterated, when hosting a reality television show can serve as the launching pad for political office, and when status is measured in clicks, likes and followers, Warhol—a pale, oracular ghost—looms as a spiritual father of this media-saturated age.
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She thinks it will also increase the cost of doing business across the pond, since U.S. banks will probably no longer be able to use London as a launching pad to do business in the EU. That means they'll have to create separate subsidiaries on the continent, and that increases operational costs.
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The army denied that claim and said it was continuing to fight terrorism, with state media earlier saying the military had struck at al Qaeda terrorists in the last jihadist foothold in Latakia province that has long been a launching pad for drone attacks on the main Russian base of Hmeimim nearby.
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The finished product looked like this: But no one warned Scott about this, and as he ran onto the platform while performing "Goosebumps," he stepped right into the globe's launching pad and dropped in face-first, apparently damaging it so badly that Drake refunded the 20,000 fans in attendance at The O2.
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After killing more than 4,43 people last year and displacing more than a million, these groups are now threatening four coastal West African countries south of Burkina Faso, a state that, as the International Crisis Group warned recently, may provide "a perfect launching pad" for operations in Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast.
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Yet, as members of Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill lumbered down the stairs from their dressing room onto the same stage that once saw the likes of Jim Morrison become a star, the venue made for a fitting launching pad for a night of powerhouse beats and unapologetically political rock.
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The occasion will be used as a launching pad for the company's newest hardware, including a new batch of phones unofficially referred to as the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X. Apple typically uses its annual fall event to show off the company's new iPhone, but this year is a little different.
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In South Carolina, which is viewed as a "launching pad" by Biden's campaign, the former vice president leads Sanders 43 percent to 12 percent among black voters, according to the same Fox News poll and 30 percent to 16 percent among black voters, according to a Post and Courier-Change Research poll released Sunday.
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The United States' key strategic goal in Afghanistan is to prevent the country from being taken over by jihadist groups such as the Taliban, al-Qaeda and ISIS, allowing the country to be once again used as a launching pad for attacks against the United States and its allies, as it was on September 11, 2001.
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The odious "humor" from comedian Michelle Wolf, who casually joked about taking innocent life through abortion at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (a far cry from the old-school liberal mantra for trying to keep abortions "safe, legal and rare") along with a host of other raunchy insults, simply served as a launching pad for her new Netflix show.
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Indeed, when we went out to the end of the new wall, if you peeked around to the other side, you could see that the Mexican homeowner there had planted trees and created a patio, right next to the wall — because he knew his backyard would no longer be used as a launching pad for human smuggling gangs.
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The TV movie, slated to appear in the fourth quarter of 2016, will nod to other elements from the original show, including Olmec, a talking head who knows the secrets behind the temple; the Steps of Knowledge, the entrance to the temple and launching pad for the mission; and cameos from a green monkey, red jaguar and silver snakes, among others.
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Listen to his cadence on the opening bars—"They know where Carter at / straight off the launching pad / marchin' on the moon, motherfucker / I been to Mars and back"—or the way that he pounces on the syllables of the second verse, exulting in internal rhymes: That's a perfect example of Lil Wayne's rap skills at their most technically adept.
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Even though the job's responsibilities are amorphous, it proved to be a political launching pad, and de Blasio used it to position himself as a forerunner on national issues: campaigning against Citizens United, cautiously backing Occupy Wall Street protesters in their demonstrations against economic inequality, and backing city proposals that would've put greater oversight over the New York City Police Department.
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Just about a week or so ago, Samsung confirmed that it wouldn't be using the world's biggest phone show as a launching pad for its new flagship – a slight surprise given the fact that the company really need a big statement soon in the wake of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle and, well, all of the other stuff currently plaguing the company.
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American and South Korean defense officials viewed the test of the North's Musudan missile last month as the latest proof that the country was developing a capability to strike American military bases in the Pacific, including those on Guam, a major launching pad for American reinforcements should a conflict break out on the Korean Peninsula or elsewhere in the region.
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When Snapchat parent company Snap went public in a $3.4 billion IPO offering in March, it proved yet again what a growing number of venture capitalists have been betting on for months: Los Angeles, the land of Hollywood movie stars and sunkissed beaches, had become a launching pad for start-ups after decades of being a poor relation to Silicon Valley.
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The intelligence collection is often automated, with malware implants — computer code designed to find material of interest — left sitting on the targeted system for months or even years, sending files back to the N.S.A. The same implant can be used for many purposes: to steal documents, tap into email, subtly change data or become the launching pad for an attack.
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Being a member in the House of Representatives, once a launching pad for hungry politicians eager to vault themselves to gubernatorial offices or across the Capitol to the Senate, has become an anvil on many of these politicians looking to move up, making it easy for opponents in primaries to tie them to dysfunction in Washington and the nationwide sense that DC legislators get nothing done.
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She provided a launching pad to some of comedy's most famous names — she introduced Tina Fey to Amy Poehler, who took her first improv class from Ms. Halpern — and helped transform improvisation from a marginal art form into a bustling business (with five theaters in New York alone devoted to it and thousands of students taking classes around the world) and cultural force that rivals stand-up.
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Burgie's songs almost cover the gamut — they are sweet, nostalgic, torch, comic and ebullient," Howard Taubman wrote in his review in The Times, "His lyrics vary in quality from indifferent to joyously apt, but he rarely is shy of an engaging melody, and he can unleash rhythms that provide almost as much thrust to the production numbers as a booster rocket on a launching pad.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy Yang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' MORE will deliver his third State of the Union address Tuesday night, when he is likely to use the national platform as a launching pad for his reelection bid.
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Instead, the internet buzzed with the kinetic energy of a thousand music bloggers frantically looking up old videos from said band, Foss, which was a seminal post-hardcore outfit who served as an early launching pad for Cedric Bixler-Zavala's music career in At the Drive-In and the Mars Volta (Rolling Stone unearthed a jammy, lo-fi track off the band's The El Paso Pussycats EP if you're curious).
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J.) and Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharOvernight Health Care: Massachusetts governor signs groundbreaking vaping flavor ban | Disability advocates questions 2020 Dems' mental health plans | US birth rate falls for fourth straight year Moderators named for December Democratic primary debate Disability advocates raise concerns about Democratic candidates' mental health plans MORE (D-Minn.), two candidates who turned in strong performances on Wednesday, are looking to capitalize on the debate and use it as a launching pad in the primary.
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Few observers are likely to be satisfied by a messy, but possibly more realistic analysis, which suggests that the recent attacks reflect a combination of ongoing and not necessarily related campaigns in Syria, Iraq and adjacent countries; entrepreneurial terrorists using the space provided by ISIS as a launching pad for their own jihadist ambitions; scattering foreign fighters heading back home to carry on the fight; ISIS exhortations to local supporters to take up arms; and the appeal of ISIS ideology to angry and often troubled individuals pursuing their own trajectories.
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