Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Evans Paul, the youthful mayor of Port-au-Prince who has been in hiding from the Haitian junta for the past three years, emerged to reclaim his office last Thursday, he brought along a kind of personal insurance policy: 40 American MPs and soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Under their watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved...
...require all students to navigate through a maze of bureaucracies; the Undergraduate Council, the Term Will office, and the Dean of Students' office. In the words of Vice-President Joshua D. Liston '96, this circuitous refund process was designed solely to make it more difficult" for students to reclaim their dollars...
Their is an easy way to reclaim your money from the incompetent and deceitful council...
After four semesters of seeking a way to foil the council's "optional" tax scheme, I recently stumbled across one. It is possible, I have learned, to get around the ridiculous refund procedure and finally reclaim your money from the incompetent and deceitful council...
...even such battle-hardened successes do not assure victory for AmEx in its quest to reclaim the top standing it lost in 1989 in the $562 billion credit-card industry. The U.S. market is saturated with 1 billion pieces of plastic, issued by 6,500 companies. "Industry competition has turned into quite a fray," says Mark Tonnesen, president of credit-card services for Bank One in Columbus, Ohio. "The winner in all of this is the consumer." Even AmEx's Skillern acknowledges that "the world probably doesn't need a new credit card," though he remains confident that "consumers will...