New menu items often lead to a jump in footfalls which can lead to higher sales.

FORBES: Cost Pressures Could Chew Up Chipotle's Earnings

Big retail footfalls have been hurt by high rents, overcrowding of malls and a credit squeeze.

BBC: India

In 2007 In-Q-Tel plugged into AdaptivEnergy, a company that develops products that harvest energy from impulse shocks, vibrations, and even footfalls.

FORBES: Business In The Beltway

He could not make out the individual footfalls, the great velvet paws landing one in front of the other, only the over-all sound of it, a soft, travelling thump.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

After many failed attempts to provoke a reaction by playing recordings of cricket song to them, she realised that they were actually more interested in her own footfalls than in the airborne music of their fellow crickets.

ECONOMIST: Extra sensory perception

But, as his footfalls shook dust streams from the ceiling, the lamination would dwindle to gossamer cross-hatching, to a golden web, to a few glowing strands, to winking glints, and then, finally, to only the possibility of light.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

But one team from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new technique that uses bodily movement, such as footfalls, to generate static electricity that can then be harnessed in quantities that could viably charge larger devices.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Filming footfalls and glances, fados and discos, and the transcendent absurdities that take place on movie sets, Green captures with passionate attention to light and shadow, to faces and voices, and to the electric thrill of the touch the mystic union of life and art, and honors the majesty of the actress, who breaks through boundaries in both realms.

NEWYORKER: The Portuguese Nun