Word: recoups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furniture and liquor stores did only half their normal business; jewelers and camera and hardware stores reported sales declines of as much as 80%. To recover, many Manhattan stores scheduled post-strike sales. "Most businesses," predicted Macy's president, David L. Yunich, "won't be able to recoup their losses...
...cities to recoup their taxable property losses is to put up buildings right over the highways, as New York City has done on the westbound approach to the George Washington Bridge. Last week, following that lead, the District of Columbia granted air rights to the Department of Labor to build a $47.6 million office building that will straddle the planned Washington Inner Loop Freeway near the foot of Capitol Hill...
...while until U.S. patience wears thin and they can again set out to topple the Saigon government. Meanwhile, there was still the chance that Viet Cong regiments -backed by North Vietnamese army units-might mount a concerted attack on the airbase at Danang, hoping to recoup the prestige lost in recent defeats and even perhaps to "hurl the Americans into...
...that would hardly please the Congo's Premier. It demanded an immediate cease-fire by both rebels and government troops. Recalling his own state of mind during the Katanga secession, Moise was not about to give his enemies a breather. He himself had used U.N. cease-fires to recoup losses and prepare new attacks...
...insisted, believed that Reynolds' bill was for both a performance bond and general liability insurance, erroneously sent him a check large enough to cover both. "We make goofs like that every once in a while," he said. As for the $35,000, said McCloskey, "we have plans to recoup it. That's for sure...