Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family moved in eleven years ago. But the Musches, who pay $92 a month in rent for their 1,658-sq.-ft. space, may soon find themselves on the street. Hilmar Schneider, the owner of the house, who left the East in 1961 and lives in Kiel, wants to reclaim his home -- and perhaps sell it. He has agreed to let the Musches stay on for now but has rejected their offer to buy the place for $89,000 -- barely half the estimated market value. "In the long run," concedes Musch, "I don't think I have a chance...
Real estate is not the only battleground. A law passed in March stipulates that former owners may reclaim businesses seized by the Communists; about 50,000 petitions are expected. State-owned enterprises have been placed under the control of a new government authority, the Treuhandanstalt, which will liquidate uneconomic plants and shift viable businesses toward private enterprise. So far, however, only a fraction of the 9,000 or so targeted firms have been privatized...
...about a cute creature who battles his evil brethren to save Manhattan. You may read that RoboCop 2 is about a police officer, half man, half machine, who battles his evil robot twin to save Detroit. You may have heard that Total Recall is about Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to reclaim his memory and save Mars...
...when Sorensen returns from Sweden this September to reclaim the departmental reigns from Acting Chair Orlando Patterson, he will have to take on the emotional and professional scars of the last year...
...never gave up its pursuit of my bag of documents. In March 1981, I visited a dental clinic where I was having some work done. The dental technician insisted that because this was a surgical office, I'd have to leave my bag outside. When I went to reclaim the bag, it was gone. The KGB had struck a powerful blow: I lost notes on scientific matters and current events, personal documents and letters, my diary for the past 14 months and three thick notebooks containing the manuscript of these memoirs...