Word: reclaim
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During the past two years Harvard has begun to reclaim the dominance it held over Eastern sailing in the early sixties, and one of the reasons for this resurgence is All-American Robbie Doyle...
...have inhabited this inner sanctum, this zonky womb, since 1640; and at the end of spring term year after year, the sudden departure of each freshman class-themselves and their books causes, their broken freshman furniture and egos-gives rise to the spirits of past classes who gradually, carefully, reclaim their former abodes, not to be dislodged before the Fall...
...Death in Life, Lifton wrote that "our need is. . . to create new psychic and social forms to enable us to reclaim not only our technologies, but our very imaginations in the service of the continuity of life...
...Steel, for example, should replace aluminum wherever possible. Statistics give the reason: making a ton of aluminum takes 17,000 kw-h of power, while a ton of steel requires only 2,700 kwh. In addition, steel products, especially cars, could be redesigned for easier and fuller reuse. To reclaim a ton of scrap steel in an electric furnace requires only 700 kwh. Another plus for steel would be a return to "tin" (mostly steel) cans that rust away, compared with aluminum cans that last and litter the landscape for decades...
Adult Models. How to stem the trend toward increased alienation of the young? Bronfenbrenner says that U.S. parents must reinvolve themselves in their children's lives, must reclaim their status as the "most contagious" models of behavior. In the schools, teachers should take renewed interest in the development of their charges. Classrooms should generate healthy "group competition and organized patterns of mutual help"; older classes might adopt the Soviet plan of taking on younger grades as "ward classes." Bronfenbrenner, one of the founders of Head Start, feels that neighborhood programs-especially those involving parents and other adult models...