Word: regained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With blood streaming from the bullet wounds, Colombo was rushed to nearby Roosevelt Hospital. In a five-hour operation, surgeons removed the most damaging bullet, which had lodged in Colombo's cerebellum. Placed under intensive care, Colombo failed to regain consciousness, and despite the resurgence of some vital signs, was given only a fifty-fifty chance to live. Still, a less robust man might have never made it to the operating table. Said one doctor: "He's tough as hell...
President Nixon, meanwhile, had moved quickly to regain the initiative. In his State of the Union speech last January, Nixon asked Congress to increase its cancer-research budget of $232 million by $100 million. But, contrary to the Senate subcommittee's proposal, the Administration urged that any cancer-cure program be kept within the existing structure...
...must regain control of its own policy. Many thoughtful Americans are honestly doubtful that a non-Communist South can survive after we go, and at least a few Americans will apparently be disappointed if it does. Actually, there are grounds for thinking that the South has a fighting chance, but it is also clear that the U.S. can no longer stay indefinitely to protect or improve that chance. It really is up to the Vietnamese...
...insurance has become a major factor in wage negotiations, many policies are tied to employment by a specific company. Firings because of the recession have deprived thousands of families of their coverage. Illnesses or injuries that occur in such a period can make it difficult for the family to regain full protection later...
...canal will probably never regain the vital position of strategic and commercial pre-eminence that it once had. Shippers-and particularly, oil companies-have learned to live without it, chiefly through the use of huge supertankers, which can bring oil from the Persian Gulf to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope more cheaply than the smaller tankers that used to ply the canal. The Trans-Israel Pipeline now transports 19 million tons of oil a year, from Eilat to Ashkelon. Egypt, with French and Italian aid, will begin building its own $210 million pipeline from Port Suez to Alexandria...