Word: regains
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...approaches to the same subject would be difficult to imagine. Piven and Cloward argue that politics is the expression of deeper conflicts between economic classes. To this familiar Marxist analysis they add the interesting notion that American history is largely the story of workers using democratic political freedoms to regain the traditional economic subsistence rights wrested away from them by a bourgeois-dominated state. This conflict--"Democracy vs. Capitalism"--eventually produced the Welfare State to protect workers (or "ordinary people," or the "poor" Pivan and Cloward interchange these phrases quite loosely) from the ravages of unemployment and wage cuts. Hence...
...President Anwar Sadat expelled an estimated 17,000 Soviet technical advisers and military personnel in 1972. After the 1973 war, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger effectively shut the Soviets out of all Middle East negotiations. By supplying weapons to the P.L.O., Syria, Iraq, Libya and Algeria, Moscow tried to regain a voice in the region's affairs, but with little success. Ominously, the Soviet Union has shifted its attention to Iran, which has been told it will have Moscow's support in any future fighting with Iraq (see WORLD...
...never let up for a minute. It was America that brought on all this trouble. It was America that gave help to the Nazi Begin. America the warmonger . . . while the peaceful P.L.O. sought only to regain the land that was rightfully theirs, and so forth. He was a first-class haranguer, the colonel. He had the eyes for it and the fists. He could thrust his body forward like a cannon or draw back his chest in open innocence, a gesture embellished with a why-me? look. Just when you thought he was vulnerable to the point...
Helping victims of personal tragedies regain their faith...
...leave Beirut. Several Arab states, including Egypt, Syria, Jordan and even Saudi Arabia, have expressed some willingness to admit the Fatah leaders, but only Egypt has made an offer. The U.S. believed that any of these states would be sure that the P.L.O. did not regain its former military power...