Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Declaring somewhat plaintively that "the Constitution gives me relevance" and "the power of our ideas gives me relevance," President Clinton took advantage of the congressional recess to try to reclaim a place in the political sun. The President used a news conference to underline once again his opposition to the House-passed welfare bill ("too weak on work and too tough on children") and to vow to fight for the confirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General. Over the weekend the President had a reminder of some older problems: he and Mrs. Clinton were interviewed under oath by Whitewater...
Those of us who missed pre-frosh weekend are especially looking forward to the coming days, when we hope to reclaim that which we never had. When else do you get the opportunity to hear eight straight hours of a capella, aside from Freshman Week and every other weekend during the year? When else is there an ice cream bash, besides three times a day in the dining hall, thanks to Harry Elkins' Widener's doting madre...
...Disrespect complicates the public perception painted by then-Presidential-nominee Bill Clinton and the media of the woman who suggested that "Blacks take a day off from killing each other and kill whites." Souljah uses the book to reclaim and define her context, one we rarely see up close--what life looks and feels and smells like from inside the concrete buildings of public housing projects, even once those buildings have been physically left behind...
...mechanics of Hanoi's urban renewal would make any big-city mayor blanch. Renovating even a modest old building can require relocating as many as a dozen families into alternate housing, as American officials discovered when they tried to reclaim the former U.S. consulate, which they plan to take back this month. Nghien hopes Hanoi's new foreign friends will put up the $2 billion it will take to rebuild the city's ancient infrastructure. ``We are not going to be another Bangkok,'' he vows. It is going to be a long, hard fight, but that is something Hanoians...
...young, especially, who are discovering their Jewishness. ``In the very place where the Nazis created Auschwitz, we have young Jews trying to reclaim their heritage,'' said Rabbi Michael Schudrich of the American Lauder foundation as he opened the latest youth center last week in Cracow, Poland. ``Many did not even know five years ago that they were Jewish.'' In Budapest the 118-year-old Rabbinical Seminary, the only one in Eastern Europe, is training a new generation of religious leaders for Hungary. One young believer is student Rafael Rohrig, 27, who says he came from an orthodox family--orthodox communist...