Word: regains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willingness to work with American banks in resolving differences over Iran's past loans. The text suggested that "past and future loan installments" could be deducted from any hostage-linked return of Iranian assets. Apparently anticipating the possible need for future borrowing, the Iranian officials seemed eager to regain a good credit relationship with American bankers...
...center Shimon Peres, 57, the former Defense Minister who is trying to retain the Labor Party leadership he inherited in 1977. In the other is cautious, centrist, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 58, who was discredited by scandal 3½ years ago, but has been battling ever since to regain the leadership. Peres and Rabin have served in Cabinets together, and they even live within two blocks of each other in the same Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Aviv. Yet the two men are barely on speaking terms. They
...freestyle, Mike Coglin went out in front early only to have Mowry pull ahead in the middle of the race. Coglin turned it on with less than 300 yards left to regain the lead, but the gritty Cadet pushed him right to the finish...
...term confidence in themselves. First, they agree that the liberal leadership is feeble, if not deceased. Viguerie describes them as "totally out of synch with the people; you try raising money to give away another Panama Canal." He predicts it will take the Democrats four to seven years to regain consciousness after the knockout of 1980, and adds that by then, Republicans will have a collective headlock on the opposition, while the New Right continues to rabbit punch in close...
Through stricter pollution controls, first initiated by the Pennsylvania State legislature back in 1947 and increasingly tightened since then, Pittsburgh has slowly begun to regain its natural beauty. There is a unique, understated beauty to this region of the country. Set amongst the rolling foothills of the western Allegheny Mountains, Pittsburgh rises out of a triangle formed where the Monongehela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers come together. Along the banks of the rivers stand the mills, sprawling giant furnaces that shoot flames thirty feet high into the night, a spectacular and terrifying spectre of beauty...