Word: recouping
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Toppled from the Olympian heights of Ivy League leadership after a five-week run in that position, the Varsity baseball team will attempt to recoup some portion of its prestige in a double-header with Dartmouth at Soldiers Field today...
...ship owners. The price, ?2,250 ($9,000), is a trifle compared to the cost of operating a big ship. During one extra day at sea (running slow through fog, for instance), the Elizabeth's passengers eat the worth of two radar sets. Even small ships can quickly recoup the cost of a radar in quickened voyages and reduced insurance charges...
...stripped of most of his power, but he hung on by winning Latin American labor leadership. Within Mexico he now badly needs prestige. Both C.T.M. (the Mexican labor movement) and C.T.A.L. have lost strength because they have been so doggedly Stalinist. Possibly Lombardo may now be trying to recoup by walking away from the party line...
...Yale & Towne, with an operating deficit for the nine months of $524,450 (v. $774,237 profit). Those who had been hard hit earlier in the year were coming back. Example: after losing $5,980,179 in the first two quarters, General Electric made enough in the third to recoup the loss, cleared an even 1? a share...
...World War II the Mitsuis lost most of their shipping and much of their physical manufacturing plant. They could recoup that-but they could not recoup Allied victory. First, they dissolved their holding company. But that was only a superficial shedding. The real core of Mitsui power and solidarity was the family constitution; each male Mitsui, on coming of age, swore sacred Shinto oaths to uphold the Mitsui constitution and further the family interest...