Word: recoups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week of bad news, the Ayatullah's government hoped to recoup, psychologically at least, by claiming a massive turnout in the country's third presidential election. Though results will not be official until midweek, it was a foregone conclusion that the Islamic republic's third President would be the clerics' approved candidate: Hojjatoleslam Ali Khamene'i, 42, a Majlis (parliament) representative still partly paralyzed from the explosion of a Mujahedin-planted bomb last June...
...Africa Conference tries to recoup and regroup...
Hoping to recoup and regroup, the A.A.C.C. last January turned...
...creditors in exchange for his Indian paintings and artifacts. Harrison shipped the collection back to Philadelphia, where it was stowed in the basement of his boiler factory for 27 years. Catlin spent ten of those years in a small apartment in Brussels, living as a recluse and trying to recoup his fortunes with new trips to South America and to the Indian country west of the Rockies...
...sales has turned it into a ward of the government, while Ford's and General Motors' record sales drops have left the two companies begging for help in protecting against a further Japanese on-slaught. Detroit has recently requested that the government help limit imports, so that it can recoup sales and build a base for developing new car lines to compete with its formidable opposition. In response, the Reagan administration has reported its willingness to consider negotiating "voluntary restrictions" with the Japanese to give the ailing U.S. automakers some breathing room and ample time to get their wheels rolling...