Word: reclaiming
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...Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives," Bush said. "We will reform Social Security and Medicare, sparing our children from struggles we have the power to prevent. And we will reduce taxes, to recover the momentum of our economy and reward the effort and enterprise of working Americans. We will build our defenses beyond challenge" - that would be SDI - "lest weakness invite challenge." And those faith-based organizations? "They will have an honored place in our plans and laws," Bush declared. "Compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government...
...Botterill can keep up her torrid pace, Harvard may well be headed back to Minnesota's Mariucci Arena to reclaim its national title...
...based fundamentally on territory, and the two sides' mutually exclusive claims on it - hills, fields, orchards, an olive tree here, a stream there, homes, roads and shrines that individuals and groups on each side claim as their own, and are prepared to fight and die to retain or reclaim, as the case...
Partington agreed, saying that when the occasional patron protests, she asks, "If this is really your ID, why can I peel it in two?...I've had people swear up and down that it's their license, but [when informed they can return when the owner is there to reclaim it], they never come back...
...usual and we wonder what the big fuss was about; without palpable catastrophe, the theory begins to seem far-fetched and totally passe. The once spell-bounding specter of spreading deserts, of global famine, of expensive real estate on the Florida panhandle disappearing beneath the Atlantic as unforgiving waters reclaim Vero Beach, no longer invokes a powerful reaction of shock and dismay. Why agree to impose on ourselves expensive pollution controls that will slow production, simply for the sake of preventing something that seems more fantasy than reality...