Word: reclaim
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AUSTIN, TEXAS: Texas became the latest state to file suit against the tobacco industry in order to reclaim Medicaid costs. The state is seeking $4 billion, the estimated total expense to Texas taxpayers for smoking related Medicaid claims since 1980. The suit, filed in a Texarkana federal court, also aims to curb tobacco advertisements that the state claims are targeted at children. The lawsuit is the first government action to claim the tobacco industry has violated federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as well as racketeering and conspiracy laws. Eight tobacco firms are named in the suit, including industry leaders...
...ignores all competing claims to the legitimacy of menorah lighting other than that of fire prevention. The foremost objection to the ban is that it limits religious freedom. Candle lighting is essential to the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah because it reminds Jewish people of their Maccabean ancestors' struggles to reclaim the Temple. By placing menorahs in their windows, Jews remind others of their past struggles against oppression and their determination to ensure freedom...
...because we all know that they just don't give a shit about anyone that's not like them. And why should they? Believing that they are the true Americans, and the immigrants and Jews and blacks and gays, are trespassers, they appear to themselves in the right to reclaim their country. Cloaked in those colors, they certainly appeared legitimate, especially as opposed to the neon-signed motley crew confronting them...
...opening vast tracts of national forest for logging--which he now "regrets.'') Recently, with much fanfare, Vice President Al Gore unveiled a plan to protect the Everglades, despite opposition by powerful sugar companies. On the eve of the Florida primary, it was a clear challenge to G.O.P. efforts to reclaim the green vote...
...this understanding has not led me to nihilism. I see my work as part of a greater movement to reclaim law and politics for the people. We took on despots in the eighteenth century and robber barons in the nineteenth. Now in the twentieth and into the twenty-first, we are called to rebel against another great, illegitimate concentration of power--the corporation...