Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After having its streak of eight consecutive Eastern Seaboard titles snapped last year, the Harvard men's swimming team will try to regain its dominance in the Ivies in 1987-'88. To help, the aquamen pulled in seven freshmen: Dainel Hume of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Thomas Killion of Fairfield, Conn.; Johnathan Manson of Decatur, Ga.; Gregory Tull of Phoenixville, Penn.; Paul Watson of Armonu, Penn.; Albert Wolf of Bethel Park, Penn.; and Jose Zumpano of Miami...
...Administration also tried to regain the offensive back home. After weeks of thrashing about, one minute backing the peace process, the next claiming unwavering support for the contras, Washington tilted strongly toward the rebels last week. On vacation in California, President Ronald Reagan issued two pledges of continued support for the contras' war against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. He broadcast a morale-boosting message that was beamed to guerrillas in the field over a rebel radio station. Three days later Reagan met with contra leaders in Los Angeles. In Washington, officials criticized the Sandinistas, issuing statements of support...
...fighting stops and the rebels are disarmed, Jayewardene could regain some support. But as India's 3,000 troops arrived in the Jaffna area last week, J.N. Dixit, the Indian High Commissioner in Colombo, heightened Sinhalese fears that India might be aiming at more than a temporary stay. When the troop deployment was announced, Colombo promised that the units would be under Sri Lankan command. Sounding a bit like a proconsul, Dixit told a Colombo news conference that the troops would answer to him. The next day Dixit retreated, saying the Indian troops were ultimately under Jayewardene's authority...
Despite the dogs' bloody reputation, owners such as Laue insist that purebred pit bulls have a "steady temperament and intense loyalty." Indeed, breeders believe that in time the animal will regain its gentler image of the 1930s, when a pit bull played Pete in the Our Gang films. Only 30 years ago, notes Ed Almeida, a dog trainer in El Monte, Calif., the Doberman was the most vicious of dogs. Now, he says, after years of careful breeding, Dobermans are "big boobs" compared with the pit bulls...
...student protests in South Korea ((WORLD, June 29)) have demonstrated one important fact: the outcry for democratic government will not die until that quest is successful. President Chun Doo Hwan must keep his promise to allow democratic elections so that the Koreans can regain faith in their government...