Word: reclaim
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...shipped in any quarter in its history. The shipments include the company's five-year-old PS/2 models as well as its brand-new line of laptops. While its new assertiveness has been praised by analysts, IBM can at best hope only to stem its losses rather than to reclaim its lost glory...
...Malcolm X's 30 teachers are black. The classrooms feature pictures of famous African-American artists, scientists and writers, and there is a clear, though unspoken, sense of pride that it is blacks helping blacks reclaim this troubled community. But there are many teachers who knew little of the inner city before arriving here. "It was a culture shock even for me," says second-grade teacher Avis Watts, who was raised in the Virginia countryside, and whose parents taught college. Now she appreciates just how critical the school is to the children. "This is their lifeline really," she says. "They...
Thus the plot: Lestat, in a male human body, charges about the world with his mortal friend David Talbot, trying to reclaim his vampire body. As usual, author Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident, in this case, showing how painfully uncomfortable it is for the con man, Lestat and finally Talbot to be stumbling about in the wrong bodies. Of course there are a couple of breathless, will-he-or-won't-he subtexts. Will Talbot and Lestat make love? And -- the same theme restated -- will Talbot let Lestat turn him into a vampire...
...this right- leaning group, however, the Democratic ticket of two born-again Southern Baptists made inroads, drawing more white Evangelicals than either Michael Dukakis or Walter Mondale had attracted. Partly for that reason, and partly because Ross Perot ate into Bush's support, the Democrats were able to reclaim parts of the South and Southwest. Those regions had been the stoutest of Republican strongholds for most of the past quarter-century, since Richard Nixon perfected his Southern strategy...
...course, there's no way that the U.S. can solve any of these problems on its own. The dual threats of violent Islamic fundamentalists and hypernationalist Israelis persist daily. Your task here is to assist others to do what you did during the campaign: marginalize the fringe further and reclaim the center. That's not a small task in a region where moderation is the acknowledgement of another's right to exist...