Word: reclaiming
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...second staged by California's Indians, and may soon be followed by others because of a controversial state decision in September. Bowing to strong pressure from an Indian heritage group led by William Pink, 31, the state parks and recreation department agreed to allow the tribes to reclaim bones and artifacts from its collection in Sacramento. Curator Francis Riddell was in despair: "We're giving back what I spent 25 years excavating and preserving." The Yuroks reburied their bones in an unmarked plot to guard against future looters. The field at Patrick's Point, though...
...Chairman, I would like to reclaim my time. I never talk theory because I don't know theory. I only know practice...
...pout and look earnest; one could almost indulge his presence in a high school production of Romeo and Juliet. But he is, at best, a puppy lover, not someone who can portray a lad nurturing his passion for two years in an insane asylum and emerging to find and reclaim his love in the face of all opposition...
...nearly a decade, many Hawaiians have been pushing to reclaim the lands that were seized from their ancestors when the U.S. annexed the islands in 1898. "We were seeing everything slipping out of our hands," recalls Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell, a retired Maui policeman. "The native Hawaiians felt that the only thing they had to hang on to was their land." In 1973 the first of several bills claiming reparations of 2 million acres and $1 billion was introduced in Congress. Hawaiian activists believe that any settlement will have to await the report of a Native Hawaiians Study Commission...
...waitress who is as determined to escape her past as Lou is to recapture his Loonily, she aspires to be the first female dealer in the casino at Monte Carlo, and her plucky struggle to keep the panic pushed down inside her when her former life reaches out to reclaim her is played with the subtle clarity one associates with Sarandon's work. There is a core of strength in her, even when she is playing losers, a lack of guile and artifice that is extremely appealing. She evokes sympathy without asking for pity...