Word: reclaimable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...factories humming again, GM aims to reclaim lost market share in Korea with fresh models, including the launch of a new sedan this year and, down the road, a sport-utility vehicle and a minivan. It is all part of the U.S. giant's grand plan to boost its sales in the fast-growing Asian market. "GM Daewoo will be the biggest piece of our business in the region," says Nick Reilly, the incoming chief executive of the new GM Daewoo unit...
...Those changes have brought Hu Yunxing's life full circle. Starting in 1972, when she was a 30-year-old peasant living on a commune, Hu spent years hauling sacks of earth to reclaim land as Chairman Mao had ordered. A pumping station worked day and night to lift water from her fields over a dike and into Dongting Lake. But the dike ruptured in 1996 and swept away Hu's earthen house. Her family rebuilt it in brick, which they thought would withstand anything. Then the flood that hit two years later took half of the house away again...
...does. And so I was glad to hear that Commencement would include an oration by Zayed M. Yasin ‘02, who has chosen to speak on the original spiritual meaning of jihad. And I was glad to see the University support Yasin’s attempt to reclaim the word’s holy meaning...
...Hardball,” as Hussein Ibish of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee tried to argue Yasin’s case—saying that the Harvard Commencement speaker aims only to reclaim the term “jihad” and give it spiritual meaning—Matthews keeps interrupting...
...nothing at Harvard if not how to masquerade. Maybe, if we push aside our egos and our anxieties, we can allow ourselves to don a new set of costumes, even if only for an hour, an afternoon, a day. In these looser garments we just might be able to reclaim our sense of awe and wonder, our carefree abandon, our willingness to jump blindly into unknown waters below. And, while we can never recapture those people who through death or distance have left us forever, we may, for a fleeting moment, recapture the feelings we shared with them. In this...