Word: reclaim
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Many old Bavarian families stubbornly resisted the Nazis and were singled out for persecution by Hitler; after the war, they were able to reclaim their confiscated holdings intact, and ever since have managed to keep the boar from the door with conspicuous success. One of their liveliest members is handsome Prince "Alfie" Auersperg, who was down to his last Schloss a few years ago; today he boasts a priceless collection of French paintings and a U.S. heiress for a wife. Because the Bavarian aristocrats have traditionally been less exclusive than Prussia's patricians, Munich today is one city...
...corn, oats, rye, barley, and a few other storable crops. Within certain restrictions, a farmer has a right to place all or part of his crop in certified storage and get a Commodity Credit Corp. loan on it at the support price. Later the farmer may repay the loan, reclaim his crop, and sell it on the open market. Or, if he finds that the market price is lower than the support price, he can simply keep that loan and, in exchange, assign the stored crop to the CCC. That is what happens to about two-thirds of the stuff...
Coded Lights. Toyo Kogyo's plant now sprawls over 204 acres, and Matsuda is planning to reclaim 1,000 acres of land from the Inland Sea near Hiroshima and invest at least $60 million in new plant and equipment over the next three years. Additional millions will go into welfare projects for his employees, many of whom already live in below-cost company housing; all employees also receive free care in the company's hospital. Though a benevolent employer. President Matsuda also demands unflagging performance. He has installed in his office an intricate system of coded lights that...
Killing for Enchiladas. The characters who claim to have noble motives for rebelling are shot down with literary marksmanship by Azuela. An intellectual journalist "from the city" joins the peasants and awes them with his ideology: "We are the tools Destiny makes use of to reclaim the sacred rights of the people." But the intellectual soon sells out the "people" for power. He starts pimping for his rebel boss, even sacrificing the girl who loves him. Another character supplies a typical romantic reaction to revolution...
...promised U.S. air cover. Today Castro's Cuba, propped up by Soviet economic and military support, is far more dangerous than it was then. The time is gone when it might be possible for Cuban exiles, no matter how much U.S. support they might get, to reclaim their homeland. And unless Castro launches an open, large-scale military attack against one of his neighbors, there is no prospect that the Organization of American States will undertake decisive action against Castro...