Word: reclaiming
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...dominate Gay Head's population, they now shape their town with a small, but far wealthier, white community. The 200-person town is now known for more than its impressive cliffs because the Wamponoag Indians are following the paths of other new England tribes and have filed suit to reclaim much of the land their ancestors owned...
California farmers also benefit from an expanding network of water-reclamation plants, including the world's largest, in Orange County, which processes 15 million gal. of waste water daily at 50% less cost and with 50% less energy use than old systems. Some cities have built plants to reclaim waste water for irrigation. Farmers have wider access to wells drilled two to three times deeper than normal-as far down as 3,000 ft.-by radical new equipment that uses larger bits, more powerful engines and TV monitoring. In addition, they can call on emergency cloud-seeding planes...
...clear, after all, that the Indians have some valid claim on the national conscience. They deserve above all else a chance to reclaim the identity, dignity, pride and esteem that have too often been taken away from them. Indeed, the mood of the Indians suggests that the recovery of such intangibles is not a small item in their renaissance goals. In the land cases, the Indians' willingness to settle out of court, even with the law on their side, forces one to wonder whether the stunning size of the claims has not been intended mainly to arrest the attention...
...struck back, however, to reclaim the lead on three goals within just four minutes. Ralph Cox, Frank Roy and Barry Edgar all lit the lamp to give the Wildcats a temporary 4-2 lead...
OBSESSION. De Palma again-this time in a romantic mood. The story of a man given a chance to reclaim a love he thought irretrievably lost and to expiate a dreadful guilt-strains credulity. But the director's fluid technique and his gift for ravishing imagery-underscored by the lush music of the late Bernard Herrmann-sweep aside any tendency to disbelieve...