Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Segal's play starts one year after Julius Caesar's death, when his adopted son Octavian returns to Italy. Octavian wants to reclaim his inheritance, which Mark Antony has stolen, and he is determined to fight for his fortune. Octavian was confident of his military power, but he needed some political clout, so he persuades Cicero to come out of retirement, go back to the Senate, and challenge Mark Antony's supremacy...
...second major ruling, the Vatican in August ended Father Charles Curran's career at the Catholic University of America, citing his open disagreements with Catholic moral teachings on birth control and other issues. As Curran fights to reclaim his post, probably in vain, educators are nervously awaiting a Vatican decree that could clamp new doctrinal controls on all Catholic campuses...
...fewer than 15 belong to members of the class of '80, many of them inexperienced politicians who won by slender margins. While most of their seats are fairly secure, a highly vulnerable half a dozen or so have been specially targeted by the Democrats. If the Democrats cannot reclaim a majority this year, with only twelve of their seats on the line, the Republicans will have an excellent chance to cement control in 1988, when fewer G.O.P. Senators will face re-election...
After two off years, the Harvard rugby club is poised to challenge for the Ivy Championship and possibly reclaim the NCAA title...
...Harlem, angry residents paint large red X's on crack dealers' doors and put stuffed animals in the windows of abandoned buildings as a symbolic gesture to reclaim them from drug users. In New Mexico, two children turn in their parents to the police for marijuana possession, just as a California girl did her coke-using parents a week earlier. In Washington, the President of the U.S., the Vice President and most of the White House staff patriotically provide urine samples so that it can be seen if they have within the past few days consumed any heroin, cocaine, marijuana...