Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plant something is reaching into places and lives that defy fertility. Throughout the most savage reaches of New York's inner city, community gardeners are transforming burned-out lots into verdant sanctuaries. Across the dry plains of the Midwest, botanists are finding plenty of volunteers to help them reclaim the prairies and replant the wildflowers that belong there. In a formidable climate where there are hailstorms in June and frost in August, juvenile offenders at a Wyoming detention center have some of the finest gardens around...
...rally support for the more promising Kim Young Sam, the country's other major opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung bore most of the blame for dividing the opposition vote last December, a blot that prompted his resignation as party leader two months ago. Now Kim not only will reclaim his National Assembly seat after an absence of 17 years, but also appears certain to become a key legislative power broker. Kim promised cooperation with Roh but warned that it would come with conditions, starting with the release of some 1,000 political prisoners. "If the government carries out these things...
WHILE this year's Take Back the Night rally attracted many enthusiastic participants, the march seemed to have lost touch with its original purpose. The event is designed to give women the opportunity to act together to reclaim areas where the threat of sexual violence prevents us from normally going. By marching and chanting confidently through these streets, we empower ourselves and defy this threat. As women acting in solidarity we can--for one night at least--take charge of the streets without protection or assistance...
...drop to 492 ft., from 574 ft. a decade ago, slashing power output by 55% and causing isolated power shortages. If the level dips much below that, Aswan's powerful turbines, which provide 25% of Egypt's electricity, must be shut down, crippling industrial development and hampering efforts to reclaim desert land for cultivation...
Nose is a humorous stroll through the complexities of czarist Russian society. Kovolyov, one of Gogol's usual St. Petersburg bureaucrat protagonists, wakes up to discover that his nose is missing from his face. As he rushes through the channels of the Russian bureaucracy in vain efforts to reclaim his proboscis, the play treats the audience to delightfully unpredictable morsels of absurdism, such as the scene where the hapless Kovolyov encounters his nose, dressed in the uniform of a state councilor, praying at St. Isaac's Cathedral. "Excuse me, sir," says the nose, "but you are mistaken...