Word: reclaim
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...possessions, now completely independent. Britain still claims only a clutch of 13 tiny dependencies, including the Falkland Islands, the British Virgins, Anguilla, St. Helena, Bermuda, Pitcairn Island and the uninhabited British Antarctic Territory. Britain's two most important holdings are Gibraltar, which Spain would like to reclaim, and the free-trade port of Hong Kong...
...West Bank has increased fivefold. These new settlements have been located in the heart of the West Bank and frequently right next to cities with large Arab populations, And many of the new settlers have been religious Jews who do not hesitate to declare their intention to reclaim all of the Biblical land of Israel. These developments have confirmed many Arab's suspicions that the Israelis mean to keep the West Bank permanently...
...suffered a worse kind of obscurity: success. The ethnic narcissism of Fiddler on the Roof, based on his Tevye stories, has drowned his oeuvre in a chorus of If I Were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset. The World of Sholom Aleichem attempts to whisper where Fiddler bellowed, to reclaim the writer from the ripoffs. But, as the Yiddish proverb has it, you can't pull two hides off one ox. The musical used Aleichem to carry the tunes; the material is now too depleted to carry an evening...
...almost everywhere, it snowed. In western Montana, 40-ft. drifts foiled efforts to reclaim two bodies from a private-plane crash. Near South Bend, Ind., 107 travelers were blizzardbound for a night in a state police barracks. Buffalo had a snowfall record: 25 in. in 24 hours. In the South, snow of any depth is a shock, and snow fell in every Southern state, in some for three days running; as much as 5 in. piled up in Georgia...
...housing, I am proposing that we reclaim the abandoned housing in this state, and allow for the use of state pension funds and revenue bonds to finance lower than market rate mortgages so that the working people of this state will once again be able to afford a home. I have proposals for increasing co-operative housing and encouraging private investors to work with community groups and tenant associations, not only to increase the supply of housing, but to encourage greater participation in ownership or management of housing...