Word: reclaim
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Even as Kidron spoke, this historic step toward a Middle East peace was becoming bogged down in an unexpected small diplomatic snarl. The Egyptian representatives who showed up to reclaim the fields were not Egyptians but three cigar-chomping Texans who work for Mobil Oil; the corporation owns 50% of the Egyptian company that had operated the fields before Israel captured them during the Six-Day War. The Israelis in charge of Ras Sudr insisted that the Texans had to sign for the Arab Republic of Egypt. Well, no, said Engineering Consultant Billy Marcum of Dallas; he and his buddies...
There is even a touch of protest in today's events--the people's Bicentennial Commission, which says it wants to reclaim America from Wall Street, will be holding an all-night vigil in Concord while its parade permit lasts, in a celebration designed to call forth the harsh, indominable revolutionary spirit...
...natural" parent who has given up a child for any reason should have no legal right to reclaim...
...country to draft in any future emergency. They refused to accept responsibility for their decisions. Perhaps if they had remained in this country and refused to serve, their public example would have shortened the Viet Nam War. As it was, they fled, abandoning their birthrights. They cannot now reclaim them...
This coming year, the trustees clearly will not hand over all their property nor use their relative financial stability to reclaim control of facilities that Harvard has assumed. Certainly, any agreement also depends on Harvard's concessions towards equal admissions...