Word: reclaiming
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...eating bad hotel food -- not to mention going without a sip of his favorite fuel, Dewar's White Label Scotch -- he parachuted into Kuwait as an eyewitness to war's inferno and freedom's jubilation. He watched wide-eyed Kuwaiti women flirt with their liberators. He saw Marines reclaim the U.S. embassy. And he surveyed the surreal traffic jam of bombed vehicles on the highway to Basra. "It was nightmarish," he says, "partly because it was so perfectly familiar." Plus he nearly managed to blow himself up by peering into a booby-trapped box of rocket-propelled grenades...
...them. Since 1975 four of every five Kurdish villages have been leveled; many of their residents have been moved to resettlement towns and detention camps in the southern deserts. When the U.S.-led coalition drove the Iraqi army from Kuwait, hundreds of thousands of displaced Kurds trekked north to reclaim their ancestral lands -- only to be attacked by Saddam and forced to flee again...
...Duwaila said he told allied officers at a weekend meeting that they should oust the Iraqis themselves, or allow Kuwaiti troops to reclaim the area, or let Kuwaiti forces occupy a similar-size portion of Iraq until a formal cease-fire is signed...
...Friday evening, March 1, an advance guard of six Kuwaiti Cabinet ministers arrived home to reclaim control of their nation. The news was all bad. The oil-well fires were worse than expected, food and medicine were in short supply, water and electricity were memories. But the prime topic of conversation that night was the "Skip problem...
...same people who produced the tax law produced this horrible cost-recovery system," says Robert Zemsky, director of the Higher Education Research Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Even those schools that are determined to redeem allowable expenses say it is too complicated and time consuming to try to reclaim the full cost of doing research...