Word: reclaimation
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...cheerfully accepted his fate as perpetual runner-up for vice presidential slots on recent GOP tickets. Last year, despite Bush?s long personal friendship with Ridge, GOP heavyweights advised against bringing the pro-choice Governor onto the ticket. His moderate politics were not going to help the Republicans reclaim the right wing; Ridge was simply too risky a proposition...
...feel honored to be called a feminist," Ensler says. "I would hope young women really examine what the word means. To throw out the word itself would be to dishonor all the women who have gone before us. We need to reclaim, invigorate and update the word. If I have learned anything from all the great feminists before me, it's that this is a chain and we just keep widening the circle...
...Arafat has his own reasons for seeking a truce. Escalating violence is fast eroding his control of the Palestinian streets, and he has been pressing the Europeans to initiate new cease-fire talks with the Israelis in order to press for political concessions that could help him reclaim the initiative in Palestinian politics. But even if he has persuaded the gunmen in Beit Jala to hold their fire while the Israelis withdraw, the resultant truce will be extremely fragile...
What if Timothy McVeigh had not been captured but had escaped to Mexico? What if Mexico had a virulently anti-American government dedicated to using any means to reclaim Texas? And what if McVeigh, under Mexican protection, was dispatching gunmen, suicide bombers and assorted terrorists to kill American civilians in U.S. border towns...
...months ago, on the theory the mouse can inconvenience no one there. It disturbs me, however, to think that before long the mice in their growing colony of exile may organize a Restoration, and one day march back down the road to our farmhouse, and, in their thousands, reclaim what is theirs. After the revolution, they will set me to work in their kitchen, fixing them peanut butter sandwiches...