Word: recouped
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...Considerations. What Kennecott needs to return its copper business to health is the money it put into Peabody. Unfortunately, the only way to recoup the $532 million in a spin-off would be to have Peabody borrow the money. But that would saddle the coal company with such an onerous debt that its future growth would be imperiled...
...film also throws into high melodramatic relief certain recognizable human truths: the shock of sudden loss, the panic of the effort to recoup, the mourning and guilt that blind the protagonist to a multitude of suspicious signs as he seeks expiation and a chance to relive his life. In a sense, the movie offers viewers the opportunity to do the same thing-by going back to a more romantic era of the cinema and the simple, touching pleasures denied the audience by the current antiromantic spirit of the movies...
July 17: Reagan should carry Utah 17 to 3, but Ford stands to recoup in Connecticut, carrying at least 30 of its 35 delegates...
...from Canada by signing a $625 million contract for an air traffic control system for Saudi Arabia. It has also landed a Saudi order for three TriStar jumbo jets-the first of many orders that the company will need but that are not in sight, if it is to recoup the L-1011's huge development costs. Says Haack carefully: "I don't classify myself as being exuberant, but I'm beginning to get cautiously optimistic." On the confidence scale, this is surely a new note at Lockheed...
...obvious that in every campaign there are mistakes and that a major difference between the winners and the losers is that those campaigns which have the money or the time are able to recoup, regroup and alter strategy. Yet almost every decision in the Bayh campaign was dictated by money constraints and made so late that they were binding for the duration. There was no flexibility, and not even Boston's political Vince Lombardi, Mr. Walsh, can predict the future with perfection. It was lack of time, not bad decisions, that...