Word: reclaiming
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...center on everything--budget balancing, welfare reform and above all the family concerns that dominated last week's Democratic Convention. For more than three decades, Democrats had ceded those to the G.O.P. Morris, who in recent years worked mostly for Republican candidates, had given Clinton a way to reclaim those issues. Under Morris' prodding, the President made this year a succession of family-friendly initiatives on school uniforms, V chips and teen smoking. As Bob Dole would say: Whatever...
...state, including Social Security, and roll back federal powers over business and the states, while aggressively challenging the communist world, to the brink of war (and beyond). Its intellectual center was the National Review and its founder, William F. Buckley, who started the magazine in 1955 in part to reclaim conservatism from the cranks, conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites who had dragged it into the phosphorescent margins of American politics...
...because a majority of Israelis gradually stopped believing in Yasser Arafat as a peace partner. But a clear majority of voters--including many who backed Netanyahu--want negotiations to continue. And they remain prepared for painful territorial concessions, should Arafat finally prove himself a worthy partner. For Netanyahu to reclaim Israel's vanishing center, he will have to overcome the vehement opposition of many of his closest supporters. Should he succeed, he will rescue the country from its greatest danger: its suicidal divisiveness...
...getting a hearing from the music industry, which, thanks to its perceived marketing needs, tends to pigeonhole artists in "black" and "white" slots. The irony, of course, is that while white artists like the Rolling Stones are exalted for their borrowings from black music, black artists who try to reclaim the now predominantly white classic-rock tradition are often met with industry indifference, if not hostility...
...United Center, where they have a record of 38-1. Chicago has the best rebounder in the world, the most versatile forward in the N.B.A. and the finest player who ever lived. No way this team loses any of the four play-off series it needs to win to reclaim its title from the Houston Rockets, who borrowed it for two seasons while Michael Jordan shagged fly balls. "The Bulls," says New Jersey Nets forward Jayson Williams, "are like Clint Eastwood in a western, Arnold Schwarzenegger in an action movie. You can shoot at them, you may even wound them...