Word: regained
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...that round over the Republicans, but that victory and all the others will be forgotten unless she can regain control over her own caucus. She didn't just politely suggest that people vote for Murtha; she fought hard. Her lieutenants plied the House with phone calls and none-too-subtle threats, including suggestions that anyone who bucked her might lose committee assignments. After Hoyer still drubbed Murtha by a vote of 149-86, Pelosi emerged from the ballot room and pronounced Hoyer's win "a stunning victory." By the look on her face, she meant it. Pelosi went to Hoyer...
...programs at taxpayer expense. Republicans should wait for the House to pass several such programs and then expose not only the proposals themselves but also the impact that they will have on the deficit and on taxes. Once we reestablish ourselves as the party of fiscal conservatism, we will regain our support in middle America and put the Democrats on the defensive. We do have to mean it, though—simple grandstanding is not good enough...
...another question. He and his Sandinista comrades were global guerrilla heroes when they overthrew the brutal dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979. As Nicaragua's Marxist comandante, Ortega was widely criticized for being as incompetent and corrupt as he was authoritarian. Those who know him say his quest to regain the presidency--he lost elections in 1996 and 2001--stemmed less from leftist ideals than from a raw need to accumulate power and avenge his 1990 humiliation. In 2000 he formed an alliance with President Arnoldo Alemán--a right-wing Somoza acolyte who was later jailed for embezzlement--that helped...
...into the second period, tying it at 2-2.But the balance of power shifted back to the Saints six minutes later, as St. Lawrence’s Casey Parenteau grabbed an open puck in front of the net after a Reese turnover and slid it past Tobe to regain the lead.“Unfortunately, for about seven minutes in the second period, we fell asleep,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “We dug ourselves a hole that we couldn’t get out of.”The Crimson went...
...pick, they’ll use it as leverage in contract negotiations, thinking that Harvard is rich,” she concludes.FIXING A HOLESo, if they won’t hold elections and they don’t trust polling, how is the HCC going to regain the trust of the student population?In their minds, less is more. The organization has started to focus on smaller, more varied events, and gradual changes in its organizational structure.Their main initiatives have been three new campus performance events, aesthetic upgrades like a new Web site, and a newly-conceived comp process.Epstein praises...