Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stricker will have her chance to reclaim the record next week, when the Crimson squares of in the Big Three meet against Yale and Princeton...
Once in a while a band comes along that is so mushy, so nebulous, so irrelevant that not even the slickest packaging by Dolby's studio team can reclaim it from the vinyl dust...
...Through much of the Nimeiri era, opposition political parties, professional groups and unions were forced underground. Last week they all bubbled to the surface again, banding together in a group that they christened the Alliance of Forces for National Salvation, distributing tracts and stating their determina- tion to reclaim their rights. To pacify them, the council ordered the arrest of high officials in the Nimeiri government, dissolved the feared state security police and ordered the release of all political prisoners...
...Spain's chagrin, the British have possessed the Mediterranean fortress since 1704, when British Admiral Sir George Rooke seized the 2.25-sq.-mi. peninsula during the War of Spanish Succession. Gibraltar's residents (now 31,183) have rebuffed repeated Spanish attempts to reclaim the territory. In 1969, Spanish Dictator General Francisco Franco cut land, sea and telephone links with the colony. His intention: literally to starve Gibraltar's inhabitants into agreeing to a reunion with Spain. But the Gibraltarians, determined to remain under British rule, turned to nearby Morocco for supplies...
...once to enlarge and illuminate one's life," declared William J. Bennett, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, last week. But according to a toughly worded N.E.H. document just released over Bennett's signature, that high purpose is all but abandoned. The study, titled To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the Humanities in Higher Education, offers persuasive evidence that the humanities "have lost their central place in the undergraduate curriculum." At too many campuses, the report asserts, students are hustling through a "self-service cafeteria" of unrelated courses, not with the purpose of becoming illuminated...