Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...momentum finally shifted when the Crimson tightened its defense and mustered a goal. MIT, feeling the pressure, pushed in one more goal at the 1:03 mark to regain the advantage...
...Soviets have mounted a concerted campaign to regain respectability. While never admitting that Soviet doctors had ever been instruments of political oppression, the Kremlin has released scores of dissidents from mental wards and reformed laws that govern the rights of psychiatric patients. The Soviets have also permitted Western psychiatrists to come to the U.S.S.R. and see for themselves whether mental patients are being mistreated. Those efforts seem to be bearing fruit: last week, the executive committee of the World Psychiatric Association voted to readmit the Soviets, who had withdrawn $ from the organization in 1983 under threat of expulsion. If that...
...they learn to speak out more freely, Muslims are trying to regain some control of religious affairs. Popular pressures led to last month's installation, with great fanfare, of a new leader for the Central Asia board. The previous head, reputed to be more adept at drinking (forbidden by Islam) and politics than study of the Koran, was ousted after an unprecedented protest march in Tashkent. His successor is Mukhammadsadyk Mamayusupov, 36, a modest and dignified scholar. At the same time as Mamayusupov's elevation, the Uzbek Republic gave his board a precious Koran dictated by Caliph Osman...
...famous person," commands little respect around the Capitol. However, the choice makes sense in the context of an emerging trend within the GOP. Republicans have abandoned the legislative process and shunned decent ethical standards; they have recently turned to destructive partisan confrontations in order to regain control of the Congress...
Harvard, which finished last season fifth in the Eastern International Tennis Association with an Ivy record of 5-4 (11-9 overall), is hoping to regain the title this year for the first time since...