Word: regained
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...have long been selected and automatically reaffirmed at each session, solely on the basis of their length of service in office. In a confused series of events, no fewer than four of the arbitrary elderly chairmen of House committees were at least temporarily deposed. Although two were fighting to regain their posts, and no successor was certain of approval in any of the four positions, the action jolted the leaders of all 21 House committees into a new awareness: they will have to heed their colleagues and perform effectively if they wish to retain their power...
Before departing for Philadelphia, Harvard coach Tom Sanders indicated that he had nothing special planned for the Quakers. But he said the Crimson would be working on solidifying its porous defense. Harvard will regain the services of Arnie Needleman, who averaged close to 18 points a game before an ankle injury sidelined him in a losing cause against Oral Roberts two weeks...
...first hand, as well as learn how badly Ford has been weakened by the lingering effects of Watergate, the recession and the Republican disaster at the polls this month. One effect of those crises has been to nudge detente off center stage; the meeting provides a chance to regain the lost momentum. Thus Ford must expect to be probed on the Middle East, European security matters and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. But Brezhnev was expected not to try to crowd Ford in their first meeting, only to take his measure. The Soviet leader may indeed find that he gets...
Significantly, the Palestinians have returned to and demanded recognition from the same two institutions that in 1948 disenfranchised them and took custody of their cause: the United Nations and the Arab governments. It is an eloquent statement about the capacity of a people to suffer, endure, survive and regain their sense of national worth...
...coalition of two Communist splinter parties--one Soviet-oriented, the other autonomous--and the United Democratic Left (EDA), of Elias Eliou. EDA shifted its electoral power toward the Center during the 1960s--partly out of a desire to combat the authoritarian government of the prejunta Caramanlis. Whether it will regain its followers once more remains to be seen. A striking phenomenon in Greece these days (or in Athens, at least), is the extreme left's appeal to middle-class youth. And what is almost unbelievable is the older generation's tolerance of the left, in light of its paranoid attitude...